She and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that will transform the human race: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA. Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn’t become scientists, she decided she would.ĭriven 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 biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA. As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition to discover the code of life.
When she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right, in a way. She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The Double Helix on her bed. The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) 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. Mercedes falling out of title contention is a consequence of the new regulations, but it was never the objective, to begin with.A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post It's important here that we differentiate between the words "consequence" and "objective".
ConclusionĪfter a deep dive into Ted Kravitz's comments about Mercedes being somehow targeted by the regulation change, it's safe to say that they don't hold much weight at the moment. If Mercedes has fallen behind not only Red Bull but Ferrari as well then it's on the team, not F1 or the FIA. However, comparing fully mature technical regulations in 2021 with a technical regulation at a nascent stage in 2022 is an unfair comparison altogether.įinally, as we showed earlier as well, two out of three objectives of the regulations have already been accomplished and they make F1 a better sport by improving racing and enticing new players. Next, coming to the new regulations, Kravitz is right in his assertion that the championship was probably not as competitive as it was in 2021.
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