《The Gene》, by** Siddhartha Mukherjee.Doctors aredeemed** a“triple threat”when they take care of patients, teach medical students, andconduct research. Mukherjee, who does all of these things at Columbia University, is a“quadruple threat,”because he’s alsoa Pulitzer Prize– winning auth...
by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010) “Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways.” In adapting the opening lines of Anna Karenina, Mukherjee sets out the breathtaking ambition of his study of cancer: not only to share the knowledge of a practising ...
The Song of the Cellproves that Siddhartha Mukherjee is one of the best science writers working today. Lost and found with “the most wondrous map ever produced” A talented writer and doctor guides us through the past, present, and future of genome science. ...
“The Gene: An Intimate History”bySiddhartha Mukherjee(Scribner).Thisin-depth examination of genes and genetics,by the oncologist-turned-author of “The Emperor of All Maladies,” is many things — a natural, social and medical history, as well as a predictor of humanity’s future once the ...
The Song of the Cell, by Siddhartha Mukherjee.All of us will get sick at some point. All of us will have loved ones who get sick. To understand what’s happening in those moments—and to feel optimistic that things will get better—it helps to know something about cells, the building ...
By Siddhartha Mukherjee Siddhartha Mukherjee’s exhaustive history of genetics comes at a time of incredible progress in the field: We have learned to sequence our genetic information with increasing ease, and now scientists want to create a synthetic human genome. Mukherjee explores the ethics of ...
In his book Siddhartha Mukherjee argues that our understanding of cells, and how they work, has transformed medicine into the modern miracle that I am currently benefiting from. Drugs that directly interact with the molecular machinery of cells, the signals between them and the biochemical pathways...
The poetic title, The Song of the Cell, sets the scene for this extraordinary book, which takes you on a journey that will reconnect you with the magic of 'micro'-biology — I promise you, you will never look at an FBC in the same way again. Siddhartha Mukherjee is an Assistant Profe...
The Gene: An Intimate Historyby Siddhartha Mukherjee “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids sci...
Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2016 “The book describes how our understanding of genes and genetics was formed in chronological order. It is an unlikely yet powerful combination of scientific knowledge and storytelling.”— Seungjin Whang, the Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor of Operations, Information & ...