For anyone overwhelmed by the discourse around longevity and the seemingly constant “breakthroughs” in the quest to vanquish the march of time, Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan’s new book Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality is meant to help make sense of it all. It seeks to provide, as Ramakrishnan puts it, a “hard, objective look at our current understanding of aging and death.” Because of the natural human fear of death—and its inevitability—the... Read this story
