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Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee explains how cellular science could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer, HIV, Type 1 diabetes and sickle cell anemia. His new book is The Song of the Cell.

His intrepid imagination now shifts to the basic unit of all life; his erudite, panoramic new book, “The Song of the Cell,” delves into the galaxies that blaze around and within us.