291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

3300.1 - 3328.062 Venki Ramakrishnan

No, there are many different aspects to aging, and they happen from the molecular level all the way to the level of tissues where cells talk to each other. So just to give you an example, we could start with DNA. which encodes proteins and so on. And DNA damage is one of the primary causes of aging. And of course, we have extensive repair mechanisms, but the DNA repair mechanisms themselves