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When Jennifer Daudna 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.

She put it aside, thinking it was one of those detective tales she loved.

And when she read it on a rainy Saturday, she discovered she was right in a way.

As she sped through the pages, she became enthralled by the intense drama behind the competition

to discover the code of life.

Even though her high school counselor told her girls didn't become scientists, she decided

she would.

Known by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions,

she and her collaborators turned a curiosity of nature into something that will transform

the human race, an easy to use tool that can edit DNA.

Known as CRISPR, this technology will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses and

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