Eric Lander, mathematician, geneticist
19. 9. 2020
It is going to be something that every student, every doctor uses every day in the next century and the century after that. Said Eric Lander to his colleagues, when they managed to successfully read the human genome. Thanks to their work, we can understand how various diseases occur and how to defend ourselves against them. How did they read the 3 billion letters that make us who we are? How does he think we should – or shouldn’t – edit our DNA? And why does he describe his life as if he was an atomic particle, bouncing randomly into key people?
