Listen "The Gene: An Intimate History"
Episode Synopsis
What makes you, you? Is it choice, or a secret code written in your cells? In The Gene, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee embarks on a riveting journey through the history of this powerful idea. Weaving his own family’s intimate story of heredity and illness into an epic scientific narrative, Mukherjee reveals the blueprint of humanity. From a forgotten monk’s garden to the cutting-edge labs now rewriting our future, this is the definitive biography of the gene—the story that dictates our past and holds the key to our destiny.
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