Pochemu my umirayem: Peredovaya nauka o starenii i poisk bessmertiya

Segodnya my perezhivayem revolyutsiyu v biologii. Ogromnyye uspekhi dostignuty v ponimanii togo, pochemu my stareyem — i pochemu nekotoryye biologicheskiye vidy zhivut dol'she drugikh. Smozhem li my kogda-nibud' obmanut' starost' i smert' i zhit' v neskol'ko raz dol'she, chem seychas? Venki Ramakrishnan priglashayet nas v zakhvatyvayushcheye puteshestviye k peredovym rubezham biologii v poiskakh otveta na vopros, obyazatel'no li nam umirat'. Rasskazyvaya o noveyshikh dostizheniyakh nauki, on rassmatrivayet samyye sovremennyye metody prodleniya zhizni putem vmeshatel'stva v fiziologiyu cheloveka. No chto, yesli smert' vypolnyayet neobkhodimuyu biologicheskuyu funktsiyu? I kakuyu tsenu nam pridetsya zaplatit' za popytki prodlit' svoy vek? Vydayushchiysya uchenyy i myslitel' ishchet otvety i na eti neprostyye voprosy.