Bob Greene: I'd love to meet Frances Kelsey, the FDA administrator who said Thalidomide was not safe for pregnant women. Now we have new techniques and there's a real explosion of new exciting applications of those stem cells," he says. "You can make that stem cell give rise to all the necessary tissues in the human body" 'I've been there for a few days and saved hundreds of thousands of lives,' writes Greene.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is an oncologist, professor, researcher, and biotech entrepreneur. He’s also a writer, and a fine one at that. His first book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” won a Pulitzer Prize. His second, “The Gene: An Intimate History,” shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and was made into a documentary by Ken Burns. In his latest book, “The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human,” he says our radical new ability to manipulate cells is changing how we treat everything from Alzheimer’s to cancer.
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