7/6/2023 0 Comments The emperor of maladies![]() ![]() In this small but typical moment, Mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically precise picture of what he sees, but a shiver, too, of what he feels. Unlike their discarded host, these cells are "immortal". The leukaemia cells he is examining came from a woman who has been dead for 30 years. And what he gazes at is one of the more sinister mysteries of human – or anti-human – life. But then he describes himself in the simplest of scientific poses, looking into a microscope. ![]() In lesser hands, such a passage would leave non-specialist readers bewildered and bored. T hree quarters of the way through his "biography" of cancer, the New York-based oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee pauses to set the scene in his laboratory, a beehive of esoteric activity and impenetrable jargon. ![]()
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