The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

504 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction science emotional informative medium-paced
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Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radic...

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