The Song of the Cell
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
English | ASIN: B09TWZ4S89 | 2022 | 16 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 469 MB
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
An exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work. 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 radical concept that swept through biology and medicine, touching virtually every aspect of the two sciences, and altering both forever. It was the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves—hearts, blood, brains—are built from these compartments. Hooke christened them “cells”.
