Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, explores the concept of death in his recent works. Renowned for his structural biology research, he presented at the Milan Longevity Summit, discussing aging and death's biological intricacies. His book delves into why we die, distinguishing cell death from the death of the whole organism, highlighting that many cells may remain alive after an individual’s functional capacity has ended. This nuanced view challenges common perceptions of life and death.
By death, we mean the irreversible loss of the ability to function as a coherent individual. It is the result of the failure of a critical system...
When our organism, as a whole, is alive, millions of cells within us are constantly dying... most of the cells in our bodies are still alive... at the time of death.
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