Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," returns with "The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human" ...

In 1665, the British polymath Robert Hooke published an unexpectedly popular picture book, “Micrographia.” It featured drawings of household objects and inhabitants that were normally barely ...

In the summer of 1960, doctors extracted “crimson sludge” from 6-year-old Barbara Lowry’s bones and gave it to her twin. That surgery, one of the first successful bone marrow transplants, belied the ...

In his latest book, the oncologist and acclaimed writer Siddhartha Mukherjee focus his narrative microscope on the cell, the elementary building block from which complex systems and life itself emerge ...

In his new book, “The Song of the Cell,” Siddhartha Mukherjee has taken on a subject that is enormous and minuscule at once. Even though cells are typically so tiny that you need a microscope to see ...

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes. The system captures both detailed structures and tiny moving particles at ...