Siddhartha Mukherjee, "The Gene"

Mukherjee charts the questions, discoveries, and mysteries that led to the formulation of modern genetics, and he offers a variety of ways our insight into heredity and our ability to read genetic codes will influence our future. Unfolding his own double helix, Mukherjee keeps in perspective both laboratory science and how its discoveries play out in the real world, reminding us of all the individual lives bound up in humanity’s fate.

Mukherjee is
in conversation with Judy Woodruff.

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