num_pages: 180
description: A physician and cancer researcher shares his personal observations on the uniformity, diversity, interdependence, and strange powers of the earth's life forms
language: English
title: The Lives of a Cell
titlecomplete: The Lives of a Cell
genres: Nature, Science Nature, Medical, Philosophy, Biology, Science, Medicine, Health, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 10131
series: Notes of a Biology Watcher
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award
category: Arts and Letters & The Sciences
publisher: Bantam