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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

3329.423 - 3359.701 Venki Ramakrishnan

can break down with aging. So it's a kind of auto catalytic or accelerating phenomenon that DNA damage becomes increasing with age. But that's a cause of aging. And then the proteins that are made using genetic information They often, the quality of those proteins goes down with age. Our ability to recycle proteins that are defective also goes down with age.

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