The Code Breaker — Walter Isaacson (2021)

Walter Isaacson's biography of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna — and by extension the entire history and ethical implications of gene editing — is the definitive popular account of the most consequential biotechnology of the 21st century. Isaacson embeds the science within a compelling personal narrative and a rigorous ethical analysis of what humanity should and shouldn't do with the ability to rewrite the code of life.