The gene

How did a Moravian monk discover the "units of inheritance" in 1856? What led Darwin to develop his theory of evolution? How did Nazi eugenics in 1930s and 1940s Germany distort the scientific notion of “surviving the most fit”? How did Crick and Watson discover the structure of DNA? Who was the Bubble Boy? The discovery of the basic unit of inheritance, the gene, has radically transformed our knowledge of our sexuality, temperament, choices, and free will. Siddhartha Mukherjee is an enjoyable guide to the exciting and twisting history of genetic research, making her feel personal all the way through her subject, as mental disorders return to her family - she was shocked that genetics is not an abstract science but an integral part of our daily lives. we all experience the effects of inheritance. In the history that spans to this day, the moral dilemmas of genetic engineering and stem cell research are as important as the latest scientific findings on the genetic implications of sexual orientation. Siddhartha Mukherjee (1970) is an oncologist, cancer researcher and stem cell biologist of Indian descent, professor at Columbia University. He studied at Stanford, Oxford and Harvard. With his research group, he is researching the genetic changes that cause leukemia. His publications appear regularly in prestigious journals Nature, Cell, and Neuron, as well as The New York Times. The gene was shortlisted in the prestigious Royal Society of the UK in 2016: the Insight Investment Science Book Prize is considered the Nobel Prize for Books in the History of Science. His book Diseases - Everything about Cancer was published in Hungarian earlier.