{"product_id":"9781847925985","title":"The Song of the Cell : An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies, The Song of the Cell\u003c\/i\u003e tells the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology, our selves, are built from these compartments. Hooke christens them 'cells'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe discovery of cells announced the birth of a new kind of medicine. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, AIDS, lung cancer - all could be re-conceived as the results of cells, or a cellular ecosystem, functioning abnormally. And all could be treated by therapeutic manipulations of cells. This revolution in cell biology is still in progress: it represents one of the most significant advances in science and medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoth panoramic and intimate, this is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45459171442909,"sku":"9781847925985","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781847925985.jpg?v=1719963127","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781847925985","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}