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Isaacson: Feng Zhang Beat Doudna's Team by Two Weeks to Human CRISPR Patents
“And after Jennifer and Emmanuel discover how CRISPR can be engineered to be a tool to cut DNA, a race ensues to say who can make it work and show how it works in human cells first.
And it takes them both six months along with some other labs.
It's a race that …”
Isaacson: Josiah Zayner Sells CRISPR Materials Online Through The Odin
“Josiah Zainer,
Runs a store called the Odin, and you can go online and get CRISPR and use CRISPR maybe to regulate the myostatin, so you'll have bigger muscles, things like that.”
Isaacson: Jobs designed Pixar and Apple headquarters to force serendipitous encounters
“Steve Jobs who designed the Pixar headquarters to make sure Everybody had to walk through the atrium and pump into people and exchange ideas to the Apple headquarters.”
Isaacson: Boston has highest density of research hospitals worldwide
“At the moment, that's Kendall Square in Cambridge with Harvard and MIT, and then the Boston area, which has more research hospitals, you know, inch for inch than any other place in the world.”
Isaacson: Leonardo designed the Mona Lisa's smile using optical science
“If you look at the very detail directly at the corner of the lips of the Mona Lisa, they actually aren't turned up. But as you move your head a little bit, and you catch the shadows and the colors better, the lips seem to turn up. So it becomes an interactive …”
Isaacson: Alan Turing's work directly responded to Ada Lovelace's objection
“Alan Turing, a century after Ada Lovelace writes her notes on the different the analytical engine, writes his paper called Can Machines Think? And he writes about what he calls Ada Lovelace's objection, Lady Lovelace's objection, he calls it, which is that mac…”
Isaacson: Jennifer Doudna Pursued Chemistry After Reading 'The Double Helix'
“When she was in middle school, Jennifer Doudna came home one day and found on her bed the book, The Double Helix, by James Watson, and she read it, and she saw Rosalind Franklin, this biochemist in it and she said, oh, I didn't know women could become scientis…”
Isaacson: Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein Both Experimented on Why the Sky Is Blue
“And what amazed me when I saw that in Leonardo's notebooks was boom, it's in Einstein's notebooks. He writes, why is the sky blue? They both do experiments. Leonardo sprays water in the air and shines light through it. Einstein, you know, is using Lord Rayleig…”