Common cold Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“A note of caution: epigenetics is also on the verge of transforming into a dangerous idea. Epigenetic modifications of genes can potentially superpose historical…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Any extrapolation of history into the future presupposes an environment of static discovery—an oxymoron.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Six decades and two years, no more than a passing glance of time, separate Mendel's initial experiments on peas and the court-mandated sterilization of…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“We now know that cells have ancient detectors that recognize viral genes and stamp them with chemical marks, like cancellation signs, to prevent their…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Familial schizophrenia (like normal human features such as intelligence and temperament) is thus highly heritable but only moderately inheritable. In other words, genes-hereditary determinants-are…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“If you prefer an “academic life” as a retreat from reality, do not go into biology. This field is for a man or woman…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“But the pigs--seventy pounds of porcine weight that did not take kindly to weekly endoscopies--did not sprout any ulcers. And testing the theory on…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“One of the four genes used by Yamanaka to reverse cellular fate is called c-myc. Myc, the rejuvenating factor, is no ordinary gene: it…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee