A Crack in Creation
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A Crack in Creation
| Full title | A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution |
|---|---|
| Author | Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg |
| Published | 2017 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Jennifer Doudna’s own account of CRISPR-Cas9, written with her former graduate student Samuel Sternberg: how a gene-editing tool came out of curiosity-driven research into bacterial immune systems, and the questions she began asking publicly once it worked — about germline editing, whether a moratorium was possible, and who gets to decide. |
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in Foundations of Science II on its Fall 2025 reading list (November 2025), next to The Vaccine, Francis Collins’s The Language of God and Nick Lane’s Power, Sex, Suicide — a science survey taught from first-person accounts by working scientists rather than textbooks. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this was assigned in.
- The University of Austin — the institution whose course list this is.
- Gene Editing — the book’s subject.
- Biotech — the industry it created.
- Innovation
- Progress
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.