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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

3244.628 - 3267.586 Venki Ramakrishnan

And so this idea that you destroy that ability to divide forever in most of our cells and restrict it to just a few cells, like our stem cells, that's probably evolved as a cancer prevention mechanism. And that, again, is because you don't want to get cancer before you have a chance to reproduce.

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