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

Praise for The Song of the Cell

"This expansive, immersive book posits a new way forward in medicine thanks to the cell: new ways of treating patients, new medicines to create, new ways of healing, and new ways of understanding ourselves." -Jaime Rochelle Herndon, Columbia Magazine

"In an account that's both lyrical and capacious, Mukherjee takes us through an evolution of human understanding: from the seventeenth-century discovery that humans are made up of cells to our cutting-edge technologies for manipulating and deploying cells for therapeutic purposes." -The New Yorker

"Erudite, panoramic... Mukherjee is an elegant stylist... [and] an assured and genial guide." -Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"If you are not already in awe of biology, The Song of the Cell might get you there. It is a masterclass." -Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Guardian

"Audacious...mesmerizing...reliably engaging... Mukherjee enthusiastically instructs and... delights-all the while hustling us across a preposterously vast and intricate landscape." -David A Shaywitz, The Wall Street Journal

"Mukherjee is a passionate, expert guide... He weaves together charming histories of scientists, his own, sometimes painful, memories of patients and friends lost to illness, and the complex science of what makes cells tick." -Hannah Kuchler, The Financial Times

"For anyone who wants to understand the building blocks of their own bodies-which everyone surely should-this is an informative and entertaining introduction." -The Economist

"Mukherjee has found an especially roomy subject for his roving intelligence. . . . I was repeatedly dazzled by [Mukherjee's] pointillist scenes, the enthusiasm of his explanations, the immediacy of his metaphors." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

"Mukherjee is such an engaging writer, alert to nanoscopic beauty and the potential deceptions of metaphor. . . . [The Song of the Cell is] written with compassionate warmth and humor, and the personal glimpses into an ordinary scientific life and the dedication that goes with it." -Steven Poole, The Telegraph

"The Song of the Cell blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner." -Oprah Daily