我们为什么会死:衰老的新科学和对不朽的追求 Why We Die：The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality

基本信息

Format:Paperback320pages

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Imprint:Hodder Press

ISBN:9781529369250

Published:19 Mar 2024

Dimensions:234 x 153 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

你想永远活着吗？

诺贝尔奖获得者分子生物学家文基·拉马克里希南 (Venki Ramakrishnan) 改变了我们对衰老和死亡原因的理解，以及我们是否可以对此做些什么。

我们正在经历一场生物学革命。 我们在理解为什么我们会衰老和死亡，以及为什么有些物种比其他物种寿命更长方面取得了巨大进步。 永生，曾经是一个微弱的希望，现在却变得更加触手可及。

文基审视了科学突破，展示了通过改变我们的自然生物学来延长寿命的前沿努力如何提出了深刻的问题。 尽管我们可能不喜欢它，但死亡是否有生物学目的？ 我们如何才能增加长寿、健康和充实生活的机会？ 随着科学的进步，我们有很多收获。 但我们是否也会失去很多？

Would you want to live forever?

Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan transforms our understanding of why we age and die - and whether there's anything we can do about it.

We are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we age and die, and why some species live longer than others. Immortality, once a faint hope, has never been more within our grasp.

Examining scientific breakthroughs, Venki shows how cutting-edge efforts to extend lifespan by altering our natural biology raise profound questions. Although we might not like it, does death serve a biological purpose? And how can we increase our chances of living long, healthy and fulfilled lives? As science advances, we have much to gain. But might we also have much to lose?

作者简介

Venki Ramakrishnan 因发现核糖体结构而荣获 2009 年诺贝尔化学奖。 作为美国国家科学院院士，Venki 负责英国剑桥 MRC 分子生物学实验室的 实验室。 2015年至2020年，他担任世界上古老的科学组织之一英国皇家学会主席。 他是坦率的科学回忆录《基因机器》的作者。

Venki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the ribosome. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Venki runs the Lab at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. From 2015 to 2020, he served as president of the Royal Society, one of the world's old