Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The question being asked is, will diseases be treated by cells rather than pills in the future. Siddhartha Mukherjee has set out to inform other people on the future of how diseases will be cured. Our generation has been taught one method, get a disease, take medication, cure disease. In many illnesses, this method works. Mukherjee suggests that instead of working down and aiming to kill disease, that we work up. Instead of taking a pill, we use cells inside our body to fight the diseases. Instead of losing organs, we build a new organ outside of the body and implant it in the body. Instead of having unnecessary surgeries, we change the environment around us. Rather than killing something, we should grow something. The old method, working to