Although the death It is usually understood as a specific situation in which everything ends, biology treats this process as something more complex. Venki Ramakrishnanhe scientific winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistryprovides a powerful explanation of how the body works at the cellular level.
From his perspective, the death does not mean that all cells stop being active at the same time, but there is a progressive loss of coordination between them.
Why do our cells stay alive after we die?
In an interview for The Observer, Ramakrishnan explains the reason why our cells stay alive even after we die. He assures that proteins are very important to allow communication between cells.
«Aging has a lot to do with the loss of our body’s ability to regulate the production and destruction of proteins in the cells«says the scientific.
The expert assures: “When we die, most of our cells are still alive, but they are no longer able to function as a whole”. This is because it is the coordination between organs, tissues and cells as it allows essential functions such as breathing, circulation or internal regulation.
Venki Ramakrishnan it’s a scientific Indian who developed a great curiosity about nature from an early age. To the point that when choosing what he wanted to dedicate his professional life to, he chose to follow the science of Physics.
However, after graduating from the University of Baroda and passing his PhD from Ohio University, he realized that Theoretical Physics was an abstract discipline and enrolled in Biology. The expert became one of the most respected biologists.
Venki Ramakrishnan’s field of research was the genetic field, which led him to be awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistryalong with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath.
Then, Ramakrishnan He worked at the Cambridge Molecular Biology Laboratory and won the prize for mapping the structure of the ribosome, organelles that make the cell’s proteins.
