‘We Are Not Programmed to Die,’ Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, The uninhabited death. Although this sounds like a good moniker, it is: Ramakrishnan, structural biology and the fields of the world’s most prominent scientists in the world aging and death. In 2009, in 2009, the Nobel Prize was awarded to discover the structure of the ribosome responsible for the statement of Gene.

In addition to being a leading researcher, Ramakrishnan is also a prolifi-made author. After the giant success Gene machineA memoir to remember the human and scientific journey has published power Why are we deadA book – as a name, regulating aging and gradually and obsolete and obsolete, and expressing the dynamics that lead to death.

Ramakrishnan, recently in Italy, Milan, gave a lecture in the second edition of Milan, here Milan Levevite Summit, the most important Italian event longevity and organized by psycho-physical well-being, braincircle Italia. It was the opportunity to meet him and ask him a few questions. This interview was edited for clarity and length.

Wired: Professor Ramakrishnan, the important question in your book Why are we dead. But what is death?

Venki ramakrishnan: We mean the returnless loss of the ability to work as a person, as a consistent person. This is the result of the heart, brain, lung or kidney failure, a critical system or the failure of the device. In this sense, there is a clear paradox: our body, as a whole, the millions of cells in our inside are constantly dying and we do not do so. On the other hand, the majority of cells in our body during the death are still alive, and all organs still operate and transplant can be forgiven. However, at this point, the body lost its ability to work as a whole. Therefore, it is important to distinguish death with the death and death of the person.

When talking about death and aging, you say, “You will not want to offer a lens view of the current concept of two events” in your latest book. What was the biggest surprise or the deepest caught belief that you have to reconsider when writing this job and research?

In fact, several surprises were. One of these deaths is not programmed by our genes, on the contrary. The evolution does not care how much we live, but only our genes and the ability to switch to a process known as Fitness in the biology of evolution. Thus, the selected signs are those who help them to become childhood and reproduce. And these symptoms are later caused by aging and landing in life.

Another interesting find was the lack of reasoning to wear and tear in the cells. Dress and tears are constantly in all living things, but different species have a very different life. Instead, it is the result of the balance between the expenditure of resources needed to keep the activities of the body, the organism and the renovation and the expenditure of resources needed to keep the generations healthy.