![]() ![]() This was the moment, Doudna recalls, that she realized her world, and the world of science, had changed. As they pulled out of the parking lot, Andy got a text from the team: "Robotics match cancelled! All kids to leave immediately!" Andy, an only child, was not happy to see them, but they convinced him to pack up and come home. They pulled on their clothes, got in the car, found an open gas station, and made the three-hour drive. Now, at 2 a.m., she roused her husband and insisted that they retrieve him before the start of the match, when more than twelve hundred kids would be gathering in an indoor convention center. Against her better judgment, she had driven her son, Andy, a high school senior, to the train station so he could go to Fresno for a robot-building competition. Berkeley, the university where she was a superstar for her role in inventing the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, had just shut down its campus because of the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. ![]()
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