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Venki Ramakrishnan, a Nobel laureate and former president of the world's oldest scientific academy, the Royal Society, has been watching as the science of aging and the hype around it has exploded.
In a new book, molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan raises critical questions about the societal, political and ethical costs of attempts to live forever.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is a British-American structural biologist. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath for research on the structure and function of ribosomes .
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]
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The scientists looked at a bunch of biomarkers, and found that people who took 1 gram of omega-3 fatty acids daily slowed down their biological aging across several areas by up to four months.
Ramakrishnan is a Tamil forename or surname. People named Ramakrishnan: Venki Ramakrishnan, British-American structural biologist, awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. S. Ramakrishnan (activist), disability rehabilitation activist from southern Tamil Nadu, founder of Amar Seva Sangam; S. Ramakrishnan, Tamil author and Tamil film dialogue ...
The Colossal Foundation’s landmark $1.5 million philanthropic contribution is the first donation to the Fund and embodies a new way of giving – deploying capital to reshape our understanding of aging, our interconnectivity, and biodiversity, which can lead to the development of disruptive anti-aging and pro-biodiversity innovations.