This book is its story, and mine. It is also yours. Because it won’t be long before the repercussions from this technology reach your doorstep too.

Editas Medicine has an exclusive multimillion-dollar license with Juno Therapeutics to develop T cell therapies

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.

There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.