Siddhartha Mukherjee on Getting Personal with Our Genes

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 2 a.m.

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of the best-selling book, \u201cThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer." The book won a Pulitzer Prize and became the basis for a Ken Burns documentary series on the subject of cancer for PBS. In this fascinating conversation with Alan Alda, Dr. Mukherjee talks about the extraordinary power scientists like him have now to edit our genes