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

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4.25

Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee is an informative look at the history of science surrounding the cell from discoveries to the people who have helped spur on these developments. Mukherjee takes the reader through different moments where cell biology made great strides from understanding IVF to AIDs. He does this by looking at different sides of the cell and a corresponding discovery. 

Mukherjee's writing easily brings the reader into the topic and he breaks down complex scientific findings into easily understandable pieces. These individual sections build upon one another until the reader has a good understanding of the cell and how it works as a central piece of biology. 

I will definitely be picking up more of Mukherjee's writing in the future because he makes science accessible and easy to understand in a way I have not seen before. He is a good teacher who understands how to build his student's (and reader's) understanding through small, digestible pieces of information that build to form a whole. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infertility, Medical content, and Medical trauma