A Book for (Y)our Time – A Review
D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A. Executive Director
Reading Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: An Intimate History (NY, NY: Scribner, 2016; paperback, 2017) is to take a 150+ year print journey with an English-speaking physician and scientist, who is also a renaissance man. Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his non-fiction work, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. I have not read that earlier work, but have spent time delving into The Gene.
The Gene: An Intimate History begins with the author’s 2012 trip to Calcutta with his father to visit a ...read more
The future of patents on embryonic stem cells in Europe: The case Brustle v. Greenpeace eV
From the European Centre for Law, Science, and New Technologies
http://www.unipv-lawtech.eu/lang1/_the_case_brustle_v_greenpeace_ev.html
Is there life for stem cells after Geron? — NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21190-is-there-life-for-stem-cells-after-geron.html
Feds OK 2nd human study of embryonic stem cells — pddnet
http://pddnet.com/news-ap-feds-ok-2nd-human-study-of-embryonic-stem-cells-112210/
