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291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

3538.649 - 3561.619 Venki Ramakrishnan

decline with age because many of them go into senescence. And so you get a depletion of stem cells. And the quality of the remaining stem cells is also not as diverse and not as good because they're often descended from a few clones which don't have necessarily the optimal properties. So that's another cause of aging. And that leads to tissue loss.

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