291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2590.59 - 2618.816 Venki Ramakrishnan

Oh, definitely. I think, for example, when you get to sexual organisms, then you have a clear separation between the germline, which is responsible for reproduction, and the rest of the body. And in a sense, there's a part of us that has been alive for billions of years because we didn't come out of nothing. We came out of a cell, which came out of a cell, which came out of a cell.