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The Song of the Cell
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The cell as the unit of life and medicine: discovery, immune cells, neurons, stem cells, the new human. Mukherjee's third great history.
Read it if…
you want to understand modern medicine at its base unit.
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Skip it if…
you have not read his earlier books; start there.
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Three things you will actually use
- Medicine is cellular now.
- Each cell is a citizen.
- New humans are being built.
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Read the chapters on T cells.
Our verdict
Mukherjee on cells.
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