From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine

"Insightful and erudite."-Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street Journal

Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as dazzlingly complex, exquisitely engineered assemblages of trillions of cells. This metamorphosis constitutes one of nature's most sp...