The Story: ON CRISPR: The Story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This week, we’re bringing you the first episode of Season 3 of the podcast ON CRISPR. Walter Isaacson — the bestselling biographer behind Musk, Einstein and Steve Jobs – and journalist Evan Ratliff (Shell Game, Mastermind, Longform) take a behind-the-scenes look at the story of Jennifer Doudna, one of the scientific pioneers behind the gene editing software, CRISPR.
In this episode, Evan sits down with Walter Isaacson to discuss Doudna’s upbringing, the history of DNA’s discovery and gene editing, and Baby KJ, a CRISPR patient who represents a milestone for both researchers and patients.
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| 1:01.7 | podcasts called On CRISPR, The Story of Jennifer Dowdner with Walter Isaacson. It's a five-part |
| 1:08.7 | series that tells the story of Dowdner, a Nobel Prize-winning |
| 1:12.4 | scientist who co-created the revolutionary gene editing tool known as CRISPR. From the first |
| 1:19.0 | whispers of genetically edited babies in China to life-saving treatments for rare diseases, |
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