I'd like to interject for a moment.

It is a shame that the only way to access this kind of information is through a paywall. It is my opinion that knowledge and information, once produced, should be free. Particularly when it comes to science which is in large part already funded through government programs (so called grants).

With that aside, this seems like a very interesting overview of the cell, it's dynamics and structures and I think the title is mostly a provocation; which I'm okay with. The cell is a living organism because we have largely defined the cutoff for living organisms at the cell; it's much more interesting to consider if viruses are machines or not and that really is a hot-topic in the biology community. At least it was when I studied biology 10 years ago.