-- cells 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 pneumonia'all could be reconceived 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 CellThe Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate'a masterpiece.