The Song of the Cell: The Story of Life

The Song of the Cell: The Story of Life

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**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the dawn of life itself, every being that has ever lived owes its existence to the cell.’Will leave you in awe’ GuardianThe discovery of this vital form led to a transformation in medicine but also in our understanding of ourselves – not as bodies or machines but as ecosystems. It has also given us the power to treat a vast array of mortal maladies…and even to create new kinds of human altogether.Rich with stories of scientists, doctors and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is a stunning ode to the building blocks of life and the cutting-edge science harnessing their power for the better.’Profound…As big a topic as life itself’ The Times’Medical magic’ Daily Telegraph’Vast…important…optimistic’ Mail on Sunday

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Weight 0.408 kg
Dimensions 3.3 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm
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496
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2023-9-14
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London, United Kingdom
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1529111781
About The Author

Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an Associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times and The New Yorker. He lives in New York with his wife and daughters. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com

Brilliant … medical magic … written with compassionate warmth and humour
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Wonderfully ambitious… Cell biology is complex and as big a topic as life itself; I'm not sure a writer could cover it better

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