“My dad was not a scientist, but he loved solving puzzles. One of his favorites was cryptoquotes—quotes by famous people that are encrypted. The challenge is to break the code and solve the quote. They would come out in our local newspaper, and when my dad got stuck, he would often enlist help from family members, including me. It really taught me about the joy of finding things out. With cryptoquotes, it’s a bit like science; you have a hypothesis about what the code is, and you test it. That was my first exposure to the idea of setting up experiments.”
— Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna shares her outlook for the groundbreaking gene-editing tool
Tagged: Cryptoquotes, People Talking About Their Parents, The Joy of Problem Solving
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