bThe bestselling author of iLeonardo da Vincii and iSteve Jobsi returns with a compelling iThe Washington Posti account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.b pWhen Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled iThe Double Helixi on her bed. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided she would. pDriven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book's author, James Watson, told her was the most important bio