Podcast
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
It was mentioned as a book that inspired Jennifer Doudna's interest in science as a young girl, demonstrating her early passion for the field.
It was about the fact that even as a young girl she had been reading things like the double helix and wanted to become a scientist.
— Episode: Walter Isaacson ON: The Importance of Li...
Episode: Walter Isaacson ON: The Importance of Living a Cur...
It was mentioned as a book that inspired Jennifer Doudna's interest in science as a young girl, demonstrating her early passion for the field.
It was about the fact that even as a young girl she had been reading things like the double helix and wanted to become a scientist.
Episode: Walter Isaacson ON: The Importance of Living a Cur...
It was mentioned as a book that inspired Jennifer Doudna's interest in science and pursuit of a career in the life sciences.
But her school counselor says, well, no, girls don't become scientists.
And so she pushes on that. And everybody else in the 1990s, it seemed in the field of biology, was chasing DNA in the Human Genome Project.
And she and a few women like Jillian Banfield said, actually, RNA is the more interesting molecule.
