Twain, Mark, 108
23andMe, 95
Twort, Frederick, 162
U
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, 120
UK Biobank, 249, 351
Umeå University, 61
“Unite to Cure,” 12
University College London, 252, 360
University of Alicante, 31
University of Bristol, 249
University of California, 127, 179–190, 293, 317, 346, 359
University of Chicago, 347
University of Edinburgh, 27, 257
University of Georgia, 56
University of Hawaii, 47
University of Hong Kong, 231, 267
University of Illinois, 190
University of Leicester, xi
University of Massachusetts, 50, 164, 180, 247
University of Minnesota, 302
University of Missouri, 318
University of New South Wales, 153
University of Newcastle, 213
University of Oslo, 8
University of Pennsylvania, 119, 135, 140, 147, 166, 195
University of Pittsburgh, 163, 196
University of Science and Technology of China, 206–207, 209
University of Strasbourg, 39
University of Sydney, 232
University of Texas, 175, 345
University of Tokyo, 26
University of Utah, 107, 113
University of Vienna, 60–61, 180–190, 184
University of Wisconsin, 107
Uppsala University, 27
Urnov, Fyodor, xvi, xvii, xviii, 16, 19–20, 67, 105–116, 197, 261, 265, 335, 338–339, 365
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 307–308, 315–316
U.S. Sugar, 311
Usher, Charles, 151
Usmanov, Alisher, 125
V
Van der Oost, John, 55
Van Eenennaam, Alison, 317
Varmus, Harold, 131, 140–141
Venter, Craig, xiii–xv, 17–18, 32, 46, 222, 353, 357
Verdine, Greg, 85
Vergnaud, Gilles, 37–38, 45, 69
Verinata Health, 208, 209
Verrilli, Donald, 186–187
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, 138, 169, 177
Verve Therapeutics, 331, 345
Vibrio cholera, 102
“Villain of CRISPR, The,” 93
Villarreal, Evelyn, 159
Villarreal, Josephine, 159
Vilnius Institute of Biotechnology, 54
Viral code, storing, 23
Viruses
adeno-associated viruses, 99, 121, 145–146, 149, 159, 162–165, 168, 172, 331, 335–336
bacteria and, xviii, 5–6, 22–27, 38, 41–45, 50–61, 366
coronavirus, 6, 22, 29–30, 100–101, 178, 215–216, 240, 343–344, 364–366
creating, 299–300
CRISPR and, xi–xii, 22–27
immune system and, xi–xii, 38, 41–45, 50–61
influenza, 101, 134, 142, 207, 249, 299, 318
lentiviruses, 145–146, 156–157, 335
norovirus, 344
retroviruses, 144–146, 282
RNA and, 23, 23–24
Shope virus, 134–135
threat of, 22–23
West Nile virus, 249
Zika virus, 101, 294
Vogel, Jörg, 61
Vogt, William, 303
Volcani, Benjamin, 32
Volker, Nicholas, 194
Von Neumann, John, 350
Vorontsova, Maria, 270
Voytas, Dan, 302, 308
W
Wade, Nicholas, 255
Wageningen University, 55
Wall Street Journal, 89, 166, 196
Wang, June, 340
Wang, Shuping, 215
Warr, Amanda, 163
Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, 139
Washington Post, 6, 133, 142, 359
Washington University, 303
Watson, Elizabeth, 126
Watson, Janet, 156
Watson, Jim, xvi, 7, 47–48, 60, 66, 107–108, 123–126, 131–133, 137–138, 181, 222, 226, 265, 353, 367
Watson, Mick, 307
Weekly World News, 196
Weill Cornell Medical Center, 340
Weiss, Ethan, 359
Weizmann Institute of Science, 20, 25
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 350
West Nile virus, 249
What Remains to Be Discovered, 18–19
Whistleblowers, 215, 220, 252
Whitaker, Bill, 3, 4
White, Michael, xiii–xiv
Whitehead, Jack, 3
Whitehead Institute, 3, 90–91
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, 324
“Who’s Lovin’ You,” 147
Wiedenheft, Blake, 25–26, 51–53, 56
Wilkins, Maurice, 48, 125
Wilkinson, Dominic, 250
Will, George, 358
Willard, Hunt, 230
Williams, David, 157–158
Williams, John, 96
Williams, Pharrell, 96
Williamson, Bob, 137, 231
Williamson, Jack, 124
Wilmut, Sir Ian, 301
Wilson, E. O., 277
Wilson, James, 140, 142–146, 164–165, 273
Wilson, Ross, 52–53, 64–65, 361
Winegard, Timothy, 289
Winston, Robert, 339
WIRED, xiii, 71, 116, 146
Wizard and the Prophet, The, 303
Woese, Carl, 31
Wojcicki, Anne, 95
Wolffe, Alan, 109, 111
Wood, Andrew, 27
Woolly, 279
Woolly mammoths, 6, 279, 283–286
World Health Organization (WHO), 252, 258, 271, 360
Worthy, Liz, 194
Wright, Orville, xviii
Wu, Ting, 96
Wyss Institute, 79
X
X-Files, 6
Y
Yale University, 47, 49, 83, 127, 196, 363
Yang, Bing, 304
Yang, Luhan, 87, 94, 282, 292
Yates, Nathan, 160
Yellow fever, 294
Yersinia pestis, 38
“Yes! We Have No Bananas,” 311
Yogurt starter cultures, 39–45, 54–57
Yong, Ed, 245, 257, 286
Yu, Tim, 363
Z
Zayner, Josiah, 196, 264–265, 300
Zedong, Mao, 267
Zeng, Yan, 207
Zhang, Feng, xii, 3–6, 13, 21, 47, 57–58, 75–102, 170–189, 214, 229–238, 254, 264, 269–273, 281, 295, 308, 323, 329, 365–366
Zhang, John, 214
Zhang, Sarah, 71
Zhou, Kaihong, 53
Zhou, Shujun, 76
Zika virus, 101, 294
Zimmer, Carl, 146
Zimov, Nikita, 284
Zimov, Sergey, 284
Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), 20, 27, 65–68, 73, 82, 106, 110–116, 120–122, 168, 304
Zuckerberg, Mark, 77, 95
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