Maggiori informazioni sul libro
In 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'. The 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.[Bokinfo].
Acquisto del libro
The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2023
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (In brossura)
Metodi di pagamento
Qui potrebbe esserci la tua recensione.
- Titolo
- The Song of the Cell
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Editore
- Random House UK Ltd
- Pubblicato
- 2023
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 496
- ISBN10
- 1529111781
- ISBN13
- 9781529111781
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storia, Salute & Medicina, Scienza e Matematica, Medicina, Scienze Naturali, Biologia, Scienza, Salute, Medicina
- Valutazione
- 4,25 su 5
- Descrizione
- In 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'. The 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.[Bokinfo].