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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2023-10-26 01:42 pm

The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Song of the Cell

4/5. Very good medical history and topic exploration under the broad umbrella of cellular biology. A lot of expected things here – IVF, cancer – but also some surprises and his usual elegance and humanism. Ignore the subtitle, it’s dumb publisher irrelevance.