“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit and its implications for everything from immune therapy and in vitro fertilization to Covid-19.
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His forthcoming book, “The Song of the Cell,” part of what he says will be a quartet, is “fundamentally about understanding the units that organize our life.”