The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher, a stem
cell biologist and a cancer geneticist. He is the author of The
Laws of Medicine and The Emperor of All Maladies- A
Biography of Cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in
general nonfiction and the Guardian First Book Award.
Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia
University. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford
University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. His
laboratory has identified genes that regulate stem cells, and his
team is internationally recognized for its discovery of skeletal
stem cells and genetic alterations in blood cancers.
He has published work in Nature, Cell, Neuron,
The New England Journal of Medicine, the New York
Times and several other magazine and journals. He lives with
his family in New York City.
With a marriage of architectural precision and luscious
narrative, an eye for both the paradoxical detail and the
unsettling irony, and a genius for locating the emotional
truths buried in chemical abstractions, Mukherjee leaves you
feeling as though you've just aced a college course for which you'd
been afraid to register - and enjoyed every minute of it -- Andrew
Solomon * Washington Post *
[Siddhartha Mukherjee] is the perfect person to guide us through
the past, present, and future of genome science... It is up to
all of us-not just scientists, government officials, and people
fortunate enough to lead foundations-to think hard about these new
technologies and how they should and should not be used. Reading
The Gene will get you the point where you can actively
engage in that debate. -- Bill Gates * Gatesnotes *
The Gene is prodigious, sweeping, and ultimately
transcendent. If you're interested in what it means to be human,
today and in the tomorrows to come, you must read this book. --
Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We
Cannot See
Dramatic and precise... [A] thrilling and comprehensive
account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial
and, to borrow from the subtitle, intimate science of our time...
He is a natural storyteller... A page-turner... Read this book
and steel yourself for what comes next. -- Bryan Appleyard *
Sunday Times *
The story [...] has been told, piecemeal, in different ways, but
never before with the scope and grandeur that Siddhartha
Mukherjee brings to his new history, The Gene. He fully
justifies the claim that it is "one of the most powerful and
dangerous ideas in the history of science." ... Definitive
-- James Gleick * New York Times Book Review *
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