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

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

second is the transfer of cells from body to body (including back into our own bodies), exemplified by blood transfusions, bone marrow transplantation, and in vitro fertilization (IVF).

The cruc

All living organisms are composed of one or more cells. The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in organisms.

First two tenets of cell theory

Newspaper obituaries brimmed with the names of men and women who had experienced “sudden chest pain,” followed by collapse and death: Elmer Sweet, Mendocino, California, superintendent, fifty-three years old in 1950; John Adams, a Pine City, Minnesota, tinsmith, seventy-seven years old in 1952; Gordon