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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2619.556 - 2656.142 Venki Ramakrishnan

So there's a direct lineage all the way back to a few billion years that did not die. And so the germline, there is a chapter in my book which is called, I think, the immortal germline and the disposable body or soma. And so that is really a dichotomy in complex organisms. And in a way that's different from say bacteria or other organisms.

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