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In his new book, “Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality,” Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan sifts through past and cutting-edge research ...
Ramakrishnan was born in 1952 in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.. His parents, Prof. C. V. Ramakrishnan and Prof. Rajalakshmi Ramakrishnan were both scientists, [18] [19] and his father was head of the department of biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
Venki Ramakrishnan thinks longevity treatments are overhyped. To age well, he leads an active life and cooks from scratch. A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who wrote a book on aging cycles 6 miles ...
Geopolitical expert Peter Zeihan says aging Americans built a ‘social welfare state’ for themselves without paying for it — now the US will have ‘massive’ deficits as long as boomers live
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1977 To explain aging, Thomas Kirkwood proposed the disposable soma theory. According to the theory, the organism has only a limited amount of resources that it has to allocate between different purposes (such as growth, reproduction, repair of damage). Aging occurs due to the limitation of resources that the body can afford to spend on repair. [4]
Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled biological limit of around 125 years. [1]
The International Federation on Ageing (IFA; French: Fédération Internationale du Vieillissement) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1973 and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada working in the field of ageing, older persons and ageing-related issues such as ageism, [2] The intent of the organisation is for NGOs, the corporate sector, academia, government, and ...