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Praise for Mortal and Immortal DNA

"Once again, Gerald Weismann , with a firm and easy knowledge of everyone who matters from Auden to Zola, bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom."
--Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon

Praise for Gerald Weissmann:

“An absolutely first-rate writer.”—Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"Dr. Weissmann's juggling with the balls of global politics, biology, medicine, and culture in the framework of history is breathtaking." --Bengt Samuelsson, Chairman, Nobel Foundation

"The premier essayist of our time, Gerald Weissmann writes with grace and style."
--Richard Seltzer

“Dr. Weissmann is Lewis Thomas’s heir—but with his own wonderful literary and artistic sensibility.” –Robert Coles

Mortal and Immortal DNA

Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth

by Gerald Weissmann

Price: $14.95 Paperback
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-934137-16-1

Admired by Nobel prize-winning scientists and literary tastemakers alike, Weissmann will continue to amaze and beguile new and faithful readers as both a masterful commentator on contemporary culture and a transcendent intellectual historian.

Gerald Weissmann is Emeritus Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology), Research Professor of Medicine, and Director of the Biotechnology Study Center at the New York University School of Medicine. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal.