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.
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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