Venture capitalist Bob Swanson meets with Herbert Boyer in the 1970s to lay out his vision for Genentech. One interviewee in the 1970s wondered if recombinant DNA experiments could produce "Frankensteins." In 1975, the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA was held to discuss the implications of preventing and curing genetic diseases. In 1971, Paul Berg conducted experiments in which he used "bacterial scissors." Eventually, biologists found the CAG chemical phrase on human Chromosome 4 responsible for Huntington's disease. Thomas Morgan discovers that some traits are linked in fruit flies.ĭavid Botstein sought to trace the gene causing Huntington's disease. Later, Danish researcher Wilhelm Johannsen called the sites of heredity on chromosomes " genes." Theodor Boveri was an early biologist studying chromosomes in 1900s. The idea that in each sperm or egg is a tiny person is known as pre-formationism. KIF1A is a gene that make motor protein in the body. David Baltimore pontificates that it wasn't "medically necessary." Francis Collins says it would have been illegal in the United States. In 2014, He Jiankui had intentionally altered the gene in the embryo of twin girls in the People's Republic of China. Siddhartha Mukherjee served as a key commentator in the said documentary. 2017: Phi Beta Kappa Society Book Award in Science Ī documentary has been produced by Ken Burns with the same title The Gene: An Intimate History in 2020.Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Nominee for Longlist
2016: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology.2016: Washington Post's "10 Best Books of 2016", The Gene.2016: Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction longlist.2016: Royal Society Prizes for Science Books shortlist.However, it is also a cautionary message toward not letting genetic predispositions define a person or their fate, a mentality that the author says led to the rise of eugenics in history. It delves into the personal genetic history of Siddhartha Mukherjee's family, including mental illness. The book discusses the power of genetics in determining people's well-being and traits. The book chronicles the history of the gene and genetic research, all the way from Aristotle to Crick, Watson and Franklin and then the 21st century scientists who mapped the human genome. The Gene: An Intimate History is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist.
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