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Lifeboat News #213

#213

Lifeboat News

This issue published on 04/01/20. Copyright 2020 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Undoing Aging Update

Undoing Aging 2020 has been moved to October 21–23 in Berlin, Germany. Our Aubrey de Grey, João Pedro de Magalhães, Vera Gorbunova, Michael Greve, Adiv A. Johnson, and Wenyu Zhou will be speaking/participating.
 
Undoing Aging 2020 is not only open to the scientific community, but also welcomes startups, investors, the general media, and all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage repair. Learn more!
 
Learn more at https://www.undoing-aging.org

Ending Age-Related Diseases 2020

Ending Age-Related Diseases 2020 will be held August 20–21 in cyberspace. This conference brings together the greatest minds from all over the world to work on the solutions to aging.
 
Our Ryan Bethencourt, Judith Campisi, Keith Comito, Aubrey de Grey, Brian M. Delaney, Peter Fedichev, Steven A. Garan, Vadim Gladyshev, Vera Gorbunova, Andrei Gudkov, Steve Hill, Steve Horvath, Brian Kennedy, Michael Kope, Tim Maupin, Elena Milova, Joshua Mitteldorf, Alexey Moskalev, Matthew O’Connor, Robert Shmookler Reis, Paul A. Spiegel, Michael Rose, and Natasha Vita-More will be speaking/participating.
 
Learn more at https://www.lifespan.io/eard-2020-virtual

Special Report

Our José Luis Cordeiro has authored the special report “A New Renaissance” at https://lifeboat.com/ex/a.new.renaissance.
 
This report discusses how our current pandemic may lead to a new Renaissance just as The Black Death led to the original Renaissance.

Blog

Jayaprakash Damothran joins our blog team with the post “South Korea controlled its coronavirus outbreak in just 20 days. Here are the highlights from its 90-page playbook for flattening the curve” at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/south...he-curve.
 
Recent interesting blog posts include:
 
“Aging and diet lead to proteome changes in the intestinal epithelium” by Kevin Huang at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/aging...ithelium
 
“Battelle-Led Team Wins DARPA Award to Develop Injectable, Bi-Directional Brain Computer Interface” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/03/batte...nterface
 
“Bill and Melinda Gates stored food in their basement because they knew a pandemic was eventually coming” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/bill-...y-coming
 
“Bitcoin surges above $8,000 for the first time in 2 months ahead of a key halving” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/bitco...-insider
 
“Can We Opt Out of Aging? | Greg Fahy | TEDxResedaBlvd” by John Davies at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/can-w...sedablvd
 
“Chinese Launched Satellite Seen Crashing Back to Earth Over Guam, USA” by Bill D’Zio at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/chine...guam-usa
 
“COVID-19 Testing Gets Boost from NIH Funding Initiative” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/author/saul-m...odriguez
 
“Cytokine storms and T cell counts may offer clues on how to treat COVID-19” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/cytok...covid-19
 
“Earth-sized, habitable planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data” by Michael Lance at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/earth...ler-data
 
“Electric control of a spin current has potential for low-power computing” by Fyodor Rouge at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/elect...omputing
 
“Elon Musk setting new records with Starlink” by Bill D’Zio at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/elon-...starlink
 
“The future is nano, and it will revolutionize medical science” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/the-f...e-essays
 
“Ghost Viruses And The Taliban Stand In The Way Of Wiping Out Polio” by Germen Roding at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/ghost...ut-polio
 
“Giant Elliptical Galaxies Are Not Likely To Be ‘Cradles Of Life’” by Bruce Dorminey at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/giant...-of-life
 
“Grandfather miraculously beats coronavirus on his 107th birthday” by TJ Wass at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/grand...birthday
 
“How Close We Are to Fully Self-Sufficient Artificial Intelligence” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/how-c...lligence
 
“How To Detect Signs Of Life From Planets Circling Dying Stars” by Bruce Dorminey at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/how-t...ng-stars
 
“How to live when nobody dies” by John Davies at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/how-t...ody-dies
 
“Light Pollution Is Bigger Threat To Astronomy Than Satellite Constellations” by Bruce Dorminey at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/light...llations
 
“Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail” by Germen Roding at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/like-...l-essays
 
“Liz Parrish and Dr. Sewell at the Coalition for Radical Life Extension Webinar” by John Davies at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/liz-p...ril-2020
 
“‘Mars Engine’ Shatters Records for Ion Propulsion” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/mars-...opulsion
 
“Microsoft boasts 99 percent accuracy in AI bug detection” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/micro...etection
 
“Microsoft wants to ‘read people’s brain waves’ to mine cryptocurrency” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/micro...currency
 
“MigVax: Israeli COVID-19 vaccine closer to trials” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/migva...o-trials
 
“Mutant Enzyme Recycles Plastic in Hours, Could Revolutionize Recycling Industry” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/mutan...industry
 
“NASA has picked Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to design lunar landers” by Kelvin Dafiaghor at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/nasa-...-landers
 
“Nurse Uses Paint To Show How Germs Spread Even With Gloves” by Roger Dufur at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/nurse...h-gloves
 
“‘Pandemic drones’ could single people out in a crowd for coughing, sneezing, or running a temperature, developers say — here’s how they work” by Roger Dufur at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/pande...hey-work
 
“Polio outbreaks in Africa caused by mutation of strain in vaccine” by Fyodor Rouge at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/polio...-vaccine
 
“Rare Birds With ‘Vantablack’ Feathers Absorb 99.95% of Light” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/rare-...of-light
 
“Robot Uses Deep Learning and Big Data to Write and Play Its Own Music” by Brent Ellman at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/robot...wn-music
 
“Robots Will Replace Soldiers In Combat, Says Russia” by Mike Diverde at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/robot...s-russia
 
“Scientists Put the Brain of a Worm Into a Robot… and It MOVED” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/scien...it-moved
 
“SpaceX will use sun visors to darken future Starlink satellites” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/space...tellites
 
“Switching on a key cancer gene could provide first curative treatment for heart disease” by Kevin Huang at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/switc...-disease
 
“Study identifies potential drug treatments for telomere diseases” by Kevin Huang at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/study...diseases
 
“Tesla confirms self-driving as a subscription service but brace yourself for the price” by Genevieve Klien at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/05/tesla...he-price
 
“This Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers” by Quinn Sena at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/this-...s-papers
 
“What We Should ALL Be Doing Right Now! (humor)” by Marco Monfils at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/what-...original
 
“Will we get a treatment before a vaccine? Inside the race for a COVID-19 game-changer” by Fyodor Rouge at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/will-...-changer
 
“Xenex robots get stamp of approval for COVID-19 elimination” by Omuterema Akhahenda at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2020/04/xenex...mination

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