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April 2017

"Emperor of All Maladies" author talks genes at NIH Big Read

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (right), Pulitzer Prize-winning author visits the National Institutes of Health April 17 to give a presentation based on his new book The Gene: An Intimate History.
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (right), Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Emperor of All Maladies", visits the National Institutes of Health April 17 to give a presentation based on his new book "The Gene: An Intimate History." He led the audience through a history of genetic medicine, including the early findings and assumptions of genetics' founding fathers, how eugenics emerged as an area of study and its devastating costs to society and how genetic information is used in present day practice. Following his lecture, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the NIH, and Mukherjee discussed the important issues and ethical questions around the use of germline manipulation technologies such as gene editing and what the opportunities and consequences of such technology can be for the human race.

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