Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2026-01-21
Books mentioned on #849: Dr. Michael Levin — Reprogramming Bioelectricity, Updating "Software" for Anti-Aging, Treating Cancer Without Drugs, Cognition of Cells, and Much More
Dr. Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin) is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University and director of the Allen Discovery Center.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Body Electric
The Body Electric by Robert O.
Discussed“We have lots of ground to explore and I thought we would begin with a book that had a spot on my bookshelf when I was a kid. It seems like you and I may have found it at the same time, but you did a lot more with it than I did. The author is Robert O. Becker. Is”
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The Gene
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee is an intimate history of genetics that traces the scientific quest to understand heredity from Gregor Mendel's early pea plant experiments to modern biotechnological breakthroughs.
Discussed“I every once in a while I'll share a resource like I did recently this multi-part series called the gene. This is a Ken Burns produced documentary about genetics, the history of genetics starting with Mendle and so on working all the way up to modern biotech.”
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