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Jan 27, 2020
Read issue #210 of Lifeboat News!
Jan 25, 2020
William Coburn, CEO at Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFD’s), joins our Futurists Board.
Jan 25, 2020
Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld joins our Neuroscience Board.
He is Senior Neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at The Alfred
and Professor of Surgery, Monash University.
Jeff’s research interests are on improving the outcome for
patients with traumatic brain injury and restoring sight to blind
individuals using bionic vision, a wireless electrode interface with the
brain. His interests also includes brain machine interfaces, medical
bionics, electrode design, neurotrauma, application of stem cell
technologies to brain and spine, and military medicine applications.
Jan 25, 2020
Yael Benvenisti, CEO of Mediterranean Towers Ventures, joins our Life Extension Board. Read Meet the Israeli Venture Capitalist Who’s Not Afraid of Aging.
Jan 25, 2020
Stuart Maudsley
joins our Neuroscience Board.
His research focuses on the age-dependent changes in receptor
pharmacology associated with neurodegenerative conditions such as
Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia.
Stuart is Odysseus Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of
Biomedical Sciences at the University
of Antwerp (UA).
Jan 25, 2020
Maxim Kholin, Cofounder of Gero and Quantum Pharmaceuticals, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jan 24, 2020
William H. Edmondson joins our Astrobiology/SETI Board. William is currently working on Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using data gathered at the Parkes radio telescope, supported by the Breakthrough Listen initiative.
Jan 24, 2020
Yuriy Oreshin, Managing Partner and Founder of Angelico Ventures, joins our Biotech/Medical Board.
Jan 24, 2020
Brian Kennedy, Director at the Centre for Healthy Aging at the National University Health System, joins our Life Extension Board. From 2010 to 2016, he was the President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
Jan 24, 2020
Alan Ladwig, Chief of To Orbit Productions, joins our Space Settlement Board.
Jan 24, 2020
Ben Zion, Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidate for the 2020 election, joins our Futurists Board.
Jan 22, 2020
We were doing some maintenance on our site and noticed that a Flash song had stopped working with most browsers because it was Flash. We had done a YouTube version before but found that we could now create a slightly higher resolution version which makes the text a bit easier to read. (This video has some small text.)
It would be helpful if people liked the new video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XUoZVbVlI.
Also, if you haven't seen our best video, it is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWvmMfJugac.
Jan 19, 2020
Lifeboat Foundation has contributed 16,732,334 Cobblestones of
computation (14.46 quintillion floating-point operations) to
Rosetta@home since joining this effort on January 27, 2008.
Donate the unused CPU cycles on your computer(s) to help scientists
determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may
ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By
running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don’t need it you
will help speed up and extend research in ways scientists couldn’t
possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping efforts at
designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer,
and Alzheimer’s.
Learn more!
Jan 18, 2020
Nick Engerer joins our blog team with the post Avoiding ageing’s 4 deadly killers — Cardiovascular Disease (Part 1).
