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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The story of how we discovered what a gene is, and the moral weight of now being able to read and rewrite the human code.
A history of the idea of heredity — from Mendel's peas to the double helix to CRISPR — interwoven with the author's family history of mental illness and the ethical stakes of genetic power.
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