CELLS: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Breakthroughs That Are Revolutionizing Medicine
The Next Big Idea
The New Human
The subtitle of your book said is provocative, an exploration of medicine and the new human. You say that future humans will be rebuilt anew with modified cells. And these new humans will look and feel mostly like you and me. So presumably they'll look and feel a little bit better. Then how do you think about the new human? Well, the subtitle of the book is purposefully provocative. I wanted to get away from this idea of the new human as kind of a loop-ill, swallowing, piano-reaves creature in a black boom.
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