Mark Gordon Pictures has snapped up the screen rights to Walter Isaacson’s latest book, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race, about Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-inventor of CRISPR technology Jennifer Doudna which the label will develop as a limited series.The project reteams Gordon and Isaacson, the former having previously optioned the latter’s bestselling 2011 biography, Steve Jobs, which was turned into a 2015 Oscar nominated movie directed by Danny Boyle and adapted by Aaron Sorkin.The book follows scientist Doudna and her collaborators who turned a curiosity of nature into an invention that is poised to transform human health: an easy-to-use tool that can edit DNA known as CRISPR.
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