Can ageing be stopped? A biologist explains

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Science, News, Technology

4.4 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

For millennia, humanity has obsessed about halting ageing and, ultimately, preventing death. Yet while advances in medicine and public-health have seen human life-expectancy more than double, our maximum lifespan stubbornly remains around 120 years.

On the latest episode of Nature hits the books, Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan joins us to discuss what scientists have learnt about the molecular processes underlying ageing, whether they can be prevented, and why the quest for longevity also needs to consider the health-related issues associated with old age.

Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality Venki Ramakrishnan Hodder (2024)

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1:09.5	Hi Benjamin here. Welcome to episode eight of Nature Hits the Books, the show where I chat with authors about their science books.
1:21.5	In this episode, I'm joined by Venki Ramakrishnan, a Nobel laureate and structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
1:29.4	here in the UK. Venke's book Why We Die, the new science of aging and the quest for immortality,
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