In the song of the cell, John Sutter talks about his admiration for early scientists and tinkerers. If you could travel back to talk to one of those proto biologists whose discoveries help shape the future of medicine, who would you want to visit? "The idea of Darwin reading my book makes me think it's really very happy," he says.
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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