TY - BOOK AU - Venki Ramakrishnan TI - Why we die: :The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality SN - 9781529369250 U1 - 616.078 PY - 2024/// CY - London PB - Hodder Press KW - Death : Aging N1 - The immortal gene and the disposable body -- Live fast and die young -- Destroying the master controller -- The problem with ends -- Resetting the biological clock -- Recycling the garbage -- Less is more -- Lessons from a lowly worm -- The stowaway within us -- Aches, pains, and vampire blood -- Crackpots or prophets? -- Should we live forever? N2 - "A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die-from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan"- ER -