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The Gene: An Intimate History is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. It was published on 17 May 2016 by Scribner . [ 1 ] The book chronicles the history of the gene and genetic research, all the way from Aristotle to Crick , Watson and Franklin and then the 21st century scientists who mapped ...
Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) [1] is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, [2] and Guardian First Book Award, [3] among others.
The book weaves together Mukherjee's experiences as a hematology/oncology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as the history of cancer treatment and research. [2] [3] Mukherjee gives the history of cancer from its first identification 4,600 years ago by the Egyptian physician Imhotep. The Greeks had no understanding of cells, but ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee on the ... studies at Columbia on ways to treat acute myelogenous leukemia—an extremely deadly form of cancer—using CRISPR gene ...
On April 7, 2020, part one of The Gene: An Intimate History premiered on PBS, a Ken Burns documentary based on a book of the same name by Siddhartha Mukherjee. [37] The documentary focuses the efforts of Rosen and Jackson, KIF1A.org, and researchers to find treatment for KAND patients. [37]
Siddhartha Mukherjee says, "You could think of antibodies as intensely, exquisitely targeted missiles made in the body to target virus, bacteria, or other cells." Brian Druker, working with Charles Sawyers and Nicholas Lydon among others, becomes interested in a fatal blood cancer known as CML following Janet Rowley's work in the 1970s.
2015-16 (Utah): Siddhartha Mukherjee—""The Gene: An Intimate History"" 2015-16 (Oxford): Shirley Williams—""The Value of Europe and European Values"" 2016 (Princeton): Naomi Oreskes - Lecture I: "Trust in Science?" - Lecture II: "When Not to Trust Science, or When Science Goes Awry" 2016-17 (Berkeley): Seana Shiffrin—"I. Democratic Law ...
First US edition cover showing a different subtitle. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (published in the United States as A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes) is a popular science book by British geneticist, author and broadcaster Adam Rutherford.