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c2010., Scribner Call No: 616.994 M953e Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A magnificently written "biography" of cancer--from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it.
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2016., Scribner Call No: 616.042 M941g Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, author Siddhartha Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee's own family, with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness, cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. He describes the centuries of research and experimentation from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Thomas Morgan to Crick, Watson and Rosa Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.
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2022., Scribner Call No: NEW 571.60 M954s Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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--all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new treatments and new humans."--Dust jacket flap.
