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From Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, The Song of The Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human—rich with Siddhartha Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and all the patients whose lives may be saved by their work.
In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their handmade microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that sweeps through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences and altering both forever. It is the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves—hearts, blood, brains—are built from these compartments. Hooke christens them 'cells'.
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In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces readers with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, laced with Mukherjee's own experience as a researcher, doctor, and prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate-a masterpiece.
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- PJ
- 03-29-24
The accent of the narrator is difficult to listen to.
I wish the author himself had read the book, or perhaps one of the readers of his earlier titles?
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- 964a5
- 12-13-23
Boring, tedious, flowery endless stories
Hated the endless stories that diluted the information. Chapters 1 and 2 were mentally lazy fantasy about the origin of cells. The CoVID coverage was a joke. I got so tired of flowery prose and stupid explanations, especially of the heart and brain that I gave up. Don’t buy this trash. It’s awful. The reading was even worse.
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