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Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography The Code Breaker, shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020 for the part she played in developing the CRISPR gene editing technology. Nick Otto/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
CRISPR Scientist's Biography Explores Ethics Of Rewriting The Code Of Life
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster hide caption
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Annabelle Gurwitch's Mid-Life Maelstrom: Divorce, Cancer, 'Downward Mobility'
Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, by John Archibald Deckle Edge hide caption
Author Explores Preacher Father's Silence On Racial Injustice In 1960s Alabama
Sparks Like Stars, by Nadia Hashimi William Morrow hide caption
'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions, by Michael Moss Random House hide caption
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is pulling six of the author's books, saying they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." Theodor Seuss Geisel, who wrote children's books as Dr. Seuss, is seen here in his La Jolla, Calif., home. James L. Amos/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
What's Mine and Yours, by Naima Coster Grand Central hide caption
2 Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'
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Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'
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Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'
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Tenzin Kalsang's in-person story times in Tibetan and English on were held at the Williamsburgh branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system. Brooklyn Public Library's Facebook Page/Screenshot hide caption
Brooklyn Librarian Becomes Unlikely Star With Her Bilingual Story Time
'It's Hard To Leave Him': 'Sympathizer' Spy Story Continues In 'The Committed'
General: D'Zion Thompson Kahran and Regis Bethencourt hide caption