Bill Gates has 5 book recommendations for your 2021 holiday season (via CNBCMakeIt)
"The Code Breakers" is more than just a biography of Doudna's scientific career and discoveries. It delves deeply into the potential applications of CRISPR gene-editing, such as curing blood diseases like sickle cell anemia, Gates wrote, adding that CRISPR "is one of the coolest and perhaps most consequential scientific breakthroughs of the last decade."
CRISPR has been deeply divisive in large portions of the scientific community for many years, largely due to moral concerns. "Isaacson does a good job highlighting the most important ethical questions around gene editing," Gates wrote —By Maggie O'Farrell Here's where Gates' list veers from science and technology into historical fiction. William Shakespeare named his only son Hamnet, and Maggie O'Farrell's novel of the same name is a fictional account of the life of the Bard's child.for his cause of death was bubonic plague. Three years later, Shakespeare began writing "Hamlet," and O'Farrell dives into the possible ways that the loss of his son could have shaped the playwright's most iconic tragedy.
"If you're a Shakespeare fan, you'll love this moving novel about how his personal life might've influenced the writing of one of his most famous plays," Gates wrote. "I thought it was a beautiful, well-written look at how grief tears a family apart."
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