2 Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee (author)

These leukemia cells have come into my laboratory from the National Cancer Institute, where they were grown and studied for nearly three decades. That these cells are still growing with obscene fecundity is a testament to the terrifying power of this disease. The cells, technically speaking, are immortal. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years

The genetic code is universal... there is nothing particularly special about human genes.