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#BESTSELLERThe Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and theNew HumanSinopsis :Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biologicaland Life Sciences! Named a New York Times Notable Bookand a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily,BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the PulitzerPrize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 NewYork Times bestseller The Gene &#8220blnds cutting-edgeresearch, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, andgorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like aliterary page-turner&#8221(Oprah Daily).Mukherjee begins thismagnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished
English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch clothmerchant,Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down theirhandmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radicalconcept that swept through biology and medicine, touchingvirtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering bothforever. It was the fact that complex living organisms areassemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Ourorgans, our physiology, our selves&#8212herts, blood,brains&#8212ar built from these compartments. Hookechristened them &#8220cels.&#8221The discovery ofcells&#8212an the reframing of the human body as a cellularecosystem&#8212anounced the birth of a new kind ofmedicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. Ahip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer&#8217dementia,AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVIDpneumonia&#8212al could be reconceived as the results ofcells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all couldbe perceived as loci of cellular therapies. Filled with writing sovivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomesthrilling, The Song of the Cell tells the story of how scientistsdiscovered cells, began to understand them, and are nowusing that knowledge to create new humans. Told in six parts,and laced with Mukherjee&#8217own experience as aresearcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of theCell is both panoramic and intimate&#8212amasterpiece onwhat it means to be human. &#8220Inan account both lyricaland capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution ofhuman understanding: from the seventeenth-century discoverythat humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edgetechnologies for manipulating and deploying cells fortherapeutic purposes&#8221(The New Yorker).

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