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Join Nobel Prize-winning author Venki Ramakrishnan & Titia de Lange, Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at The Rockefeller University in a discussion that will unveil the strides science has made in understanding aging & longevity-and Ramakrishnan's new book, Why We Die: The New Science of Aging & the Quest for Immortality.
Unraveling the universal human fear of death, Ramakrishnan traces our historical attempts to evade its inevitability-from religious afterlife beliefs to the existential realization in childhood that all we cherish is short-lived. He guides readers through the cutting-edge research shaping our understanding of mortality & raises the tantalizing possibility of extending our lifespan exponentially. As he navigates the recent breakthroughs in altering physiology to extend life, he contemplates life, & the biological purpose of death, & probes the social & ethical implications of pursuing immortality.
About the Author:
Venki Ramakrishnan, PhD, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the ribosome. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Venki runs the Ramakrishnan Lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. From 2015 to 2020, he served as president of the Royal Society, one of the world's oldest scientific organizations. He is the author of the frank scientific memoir Gene Machine.
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