Title: song of the cell (Keywords) and Author: Mukherjee, Siddhartha (Keywords)

The discovery of cells - and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem - announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, an...

In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their hand-made microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that alters both biology and medicine forever. It is the fact that complex living or...