bWalter Isaacson's 1 iNew York Times ibestselling history of our third scientific revolution CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers!b pWhen Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was iThe Double Helixi, James Watson's account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. pThis book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves. Doudna became an expert in determining the shapes and structures of these RNA molecules--an expertise that led her to develop a revolutionary new technique that could edit human genes. pToday gene-editin