Stories by Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan is a structural biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, and a fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the structure and function of ribosomes. He is author of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality (William Morrow, 2024).

A woman looking at an aged reflection in a mirror with the hands of a clock with various other clocks made from science structures are scattered next to it on the wall by Ada Zejun Shen.

HealthSeptember 15, 2026

Will we ever achieve immortality?

Scientists are pursuing the limits of longevity

Venki Ramakrishnan