The Gene (eBook, ePUB) - Mukherjee, Siddhartha
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An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.
From Gregor Mendel's pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity - to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans - land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with personal history, weaving in his own family's struggles with mental illness to explore the moral frontiers of genetics.
This is science writing of the highest order , humane, lyrical, and profound,…mehr

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An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.

From Gregor Mendel's pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity - to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans - land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with personal history, weaving in his own family's struggles with mental illness to explore the moral frontiers of genetics.

This is science writing of the highest order, humane, lyrical, and profound, showing how the study of genes illuminates both our biological destiny and our deepest hopes.

'Siddhartha Mukherjee is the perfect guide to genome science' Bill Gates

'Thrilling and comprehensive' Sunday Times

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell; The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. In 2023, he was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker.

Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com