291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2344.661 - 2371.081 Venki Ramakrishnan

They need to sort of... Oddly enough, I found many unicellular organisms do die. For example, budding yeast. where you can clearly separate the mother cell from the daughter cell, they do die. The mother cell only can undergo a certain number of divisions, and then it's basically senescent and dies. And interestingly, people have even done this with simple bacteria like E. coli.