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    Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell
    Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell
    Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell
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    Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell

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    Get the Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.”

    The discovery of cells—and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem—announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer’s dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID pneumonia—all could be reconceived as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMay 8, 2023
    ISBN9798350063882
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      Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Song of the Cell

      Contents

      Overview

      The Basic Unit of Life

      The Foundation of Cell Biology

      The Cause of Diseases

      The Road to Antibiotics

      Cellular Anatomy

      A Path to New Treatments

      Cell Division and IVF

      The Components of Blood

      From One Human to Another

      White Blood Cells

      The Immune System

      The Single-Minded Organ

      The Many-Minded Organ

      The Future of Diabetes

      Creating New Humans

      The Future of Cell Biology

      About the Author

      Overview

      Medical technologies such as blood transfusions, vaccinations, and genetic modification have saved countless lives. These technologies are all forms of cellular therapy, which involves the manipulation of cells, the most fundamental units of life. In The Song of the Cell (2022), physician Siddhartha Mukherjee provides an overview of the history and science behind cellular biology. He explores how cells work and creates a vision for a future where diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and sickle cell anemia can be permanently cured.

      The Basic Unit of Life

      Cells are the basic units that make up all organisms. Our understanding of the cell began in the 1600s, when a Dutch cloth seller and an English polymath, each working alone, peered down their microscopes and observed the first signs of cells. The discovery of cells led to a new perspective on the human body as a cellular ecosystem and new ways to treat diseases.

      Today, all diseases are conceived as the results of cells functioning abnormally. This understanding has led to new types of cellular therapies. One type of cell therapy is the use of

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