JMCx4
Censorship is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
I watched segments of this new 2-part 4-hour Ken Burns produced documentary on my local PBS station last night, and I intended to sit down this weekend and watch it beginning to end on the PBS webpage (which also has the usual plethora of supporting & descriptive content). The film is based on a 2016 book of the same name written by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee; Dr. Sid is featured throughout the TV mini-series with cameo pieces tying together various story lines. Typical high quality & thought provoking content of a Ken Burns film, with fascinating stories about genetic research over human history and many emotional glimpses into the lives of modern researchers and patients & their families (all three groups sometimes overlapping). The film makers also give what seemed to be fair time to the embedded topic of ethics in human genomics, while keeping the main focus on discoveries so far & hopes for future advances in the science. I can recommend "The Gene" on just the hour or so that I've watched so far, and I expect to learn & enjoy more in the next couple of days.