Read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.

Mukherjee's intimate history of heredity, from Mendel's peas to CRISPR.

The Inner Harbor, Fort McHenry where the anthem was written and Chesapeake blue crabs.

Atul Gawande on what medicine gets wrong about dying, and what a good end looks like.

Matthew Walker on what eight hours do and what six hours cost.

The Nobel laureate at his hospital in Lambarene, filmed in Gabon in his eighties.

Five panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and the five lives they were sewn for.

Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR; Isaacson on the gene-editing race.