Editor’s note:This piece appears in the March 2019 issue ofRolling Stone,“Women Shaping the Future.”After the magazine was sent to press in early February, Sen. Klobuchar’s alleged mistreatment of staffers became a national story. Reached byRolling Stone to comment on the allegations, the Minnesota senator sent the following statement: “I’m incredibly …
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Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna worked in an obscure area of biology — how bacteria fight viral infections — when she helped make a discovery that could change life on Earth: CRISPR, a gene-editing tool capable of changing the DNA of any living thing almost as simply as using a find-and-replace …
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