Jennifer Doudna on how covid-19 is spurring science to accelerate
A change is under way in the respect for scientists, dissemination of research and forms of collaboration
By JENNIFER DOUDNA
I HAVE ALWAYS loved mystery stories. Maybe that explains my fascination with science, which is humanity’s attempt to understand the longest-running mystery we know: the origin and function of the natural world and our place in it. As a child, I had only an intuitive sense of science as an approach to understanding things, such as why people get cancer or how blind spiders came to populate the lava tubes I explored on weekend outings in my hometown in Hawaii.
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