$2.99 | Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality (eBook) by Venki Ramakrishnan Leave a comment
Creator: Venki Ramakrishnan
Writer: William Morrow
Publication date: March 19, 2024
Print size: 318 pages
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“Completely fascinating.” —Invoice Bryson
“An unimaginable journey.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee
*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY*
*2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER FOR SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY*
A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan
The information of dying is so terrifying that we reside most of our lives in denial of it. One of the crucial tough moments of childhood have to be when every of us first realizes that not solely we however all our family members will die—and there may be nothing we will do about it.
Or a minimum of, there hasn’t been. At the moment, we live by a revolution in biology. Large strides are being made in understanding why we age—and why some species reside longer than others. May we ultimately cheat illness and dying and reside for a really very long time, presumably many occasions our present lifespan?
Venki Ramakrishnan, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and former president of the Royal Society, takes us on a riveting journey to the frontiers of biology, asking whether or not we have to be mortal. Masking the current breakthroughs in scientific analysis, he examines the chopping fringe of efforts to increase lifespan by altering our physiology. However may dying serve a crucial organic goal? What are the social and moral prices of trying to reside perpetually?
Why We Die is a story of unusual perception and sweetness from one among our main public intellectuals.
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