Lifeboat Foundation

120 posts by Paul Battista

• Single-dose CRISPR–Cas9 therapy extends lifespan of mice with Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome – February 19, 2019
• Slowing the Aging Process – February 19, 2019
• Gene therapy first to ‘halt’ most common cause of blindness – February 19, 2019
• How Best to Resuscitate Patients With Septic Shock? – February 18, 2019
• Could hackers ‘brainjack’ your memories in future? – February 18, 2019
• Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain – February 18, 2019
• There’s a black hole that could erase your past and let you live out infinite futures, study suggests – February 17, 2019
• This New ‘Trojan Horse’ Drug Successfully Treated 6 Types of Cancer Tumor – February 17, 2019
• Researchers discover a weakness in a rare cancer that could be exploited with drugs – February 15, 2019
• Pill that reverses brain damage could be on the horizon – February 14, 2019
• Diabetes: Could a pill replace insulin injections? – February 14, 2019
• This device clogs wounds – February 13, 2019
• New research findings could be key to improving outcomes for some brain cancers – February 13, 2019
• Mexican scientist cures the Human Papilloma Virus – February 13, 2019
• New theory illustrates the development of the universe may be different than we thought – February 12, 2019
• Researchers closer to new Alzheimer’s therapy with brain blood flow discovery – February 12, 2019
• A new stem cell derived tool for studying brain diseases – February 12, 2019
• Electric nanoparticles can target and kill cancer cells – February 12, 2019
• Scientists believe it may be possible to reverse the heart damage caused by aging – February 11, 2019
• Advances in cryoablation for pancreatic cancer – February 10, 2019
• Hallmarks of Aging – Altered Intercellular Communication – February 10, 2019
• Drug combo makes neurons to replace damaged ones – February 10, 2019
• New Pill can Deliver Insulin Through the Stomach – February 10, 2019
• Nanomachines taught to fight cancer – February 9, 2019
• Want to live forever? You just have to make it to 2050 – February 9, 2019
• Nested CRISPR enables efficient genome editing using long DNA fragments – February 8, 2019
• This Star Trek–like replicator can create entire objects in minutes – February 8, 2019
• Aging and chronic diseases share genetic factors, study reveals – February 7, 2019
• Doctors Wired a Prosthetic Hand Directly Into a Woman’s Nerves – February 7, 2019
• XPrize board member raises $100M fund to tackle aging – February 6, 2019
• Cancer growth in the body could originate from a single cell – target it to revolutionise treatment – February 6, 2019
• ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future – February 6, 2019
• An Algorithm to Predict the Age of Your Lab Mice – February 5, 2019
• Longevity Vision Fund: Fueling The Longevity Biotechnology Boom We’ve Been Waiting For – February 5, 2019
• Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think – February 4, 2019
• AHS18 Michael Rose — Evolutionary Biology of Diet, Aging, and Mismatch – February 2, 2019
• Explainer: What is a quantum computer? – February 1, 2019
• Could targeting this enzyme slow aging and related diseases? – January 31, 2019
• An amazing panel with Aubrey de Grey, Judy Campisi, and Nir Barzilai – January 31, 2019
• A Smart Stethoscope Puts AI in Medics’ Ears – January 31, 2019
• Senescent Cells and Senolytics – January 31, 2019
• Cancer patients could triple survival rates – January 30, 2019
• Experimental Brain-Computer Interface Translates Brain Signals into Recognizable Speech – January 30, 2019
• A Deeper Look At Human Longevity Genes – January 30, 2019
• Implantable Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device Aids Weight Loss – January 30, 2019
• Researchers identify drug against the formation of metastasis – January 30, 2019
• Bedford Day Celebration with Ben Best – January 30, 2019
• Is empirical testing of string theory possible? – January 30, 2019
• New materials could ‘drive wound healing’ – January 30, 2019
• Brain Cancer Patient Is First to Get Untested Treatment Under Trump-Backed Law – January 30, 2019
• Osteoporosis breakthrough: Bone mass increased – January 30, 2019
• A neural network can learn to organize the world it sees into concepts—just like we do – January 30, 2019
• Gene-editing tool CRISPR repurposed to develop better antibiotics – January 30, 2019
• The brain may be able to repair itself — with help – January 30, 2019
• Paraplegic patients walk again with spinal cord implants – January 30, 2019
• Implantable Knee Shock Absorber Embedded in First Patient in U.S. – January 30, 2019
• The Bioart of Neurons and Memory – January 30, 2019
• Epilepsy: Latest Treatment Options – January 30, 2019
• Tardigrades, Frozen for 30 Years, Spring Back to Life – January 30, 2019
• This AI Can Clone Any Voice, Including Yours – January 30, 2019
• A new 3D printed ‘sponge’ sops up excess chemo drugs – January 30, 2019
• UNM database of deceased people a national first – January 30, 2019
• Fever alters immune cells so they can better reach infections – January 30, 2019
• Marijuana Could Help HIV Patients Maintain Their Mental Stamina – January 30, 2019
• Using 3D printer to develop treatment for spinal cord injury – January 30, 2019
• Length of DNA strands can predict life expectancy – January 30, 2019
• New hope for stem cell approach to treating diabetes – January 30, 2019
• Experimental drug could be new option for type 2 diabetes – January 30, 2019
• Scientists create a renewable source of cancer-fighting T cells – January 30, 2019
• New quantum structures in super-chilled helium may mirror early days of universe – January 30, 2019
• Hundreds of genes affecting tobacco and alcohol use discovered – January 30, 2019
• New Material Could Drive Wound Healing – January 30, 2019
• Kill the Cancer Stem Cell, Kill the Cancer: How One Biotech is Hitting Cancer at the Cause – January 30, 2019
• Physicists Have Built a Machine That Actually Breaks Two Rules of Light – January 30, 2019
• New NASA Animations Show How Slowly Light Travels Through Space – January 30, 2019
• Fighting Deadly Drug Resistant Bacteria in Intestines with New Antibiotic – January 30, 2019
• A controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood now claims to be up and running in 5 cities across the US – January 30, 2019
• Treating Disease – January 30, 2019
• How pharmaceutical companies game the patent system – January 30, 2019
• Link between aging and microbiome diversity in exceptional mammalian longevity – January 30, 2019
• For the January Journal Club, we will be taking a look at the recent human senolytics trial conducted at the Mayo Clinic – January 30, 2019
• Drug compound could be next-generation treatment for aggressive form of leukemia – January 29, 2019
• Soon we’ll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill – January 29, 2019
• Scientists Generate Quantum Entanglement in Space For the First Time – January 29, 2019
• Clinton Township, MI – January 29, 2019
• Alzheimer’s blood test detects brain damage years before symptoms – January 29, 2019
• A cure for cancer? Israeli scientists say they think they found one – January 28, 2019
• Evidence of life found in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice – January 28, 2019
• Scientists Created The First Successful Human-Animal Hybrids – January 27, 2019
• New Paper: A ‘Mirror Image’ of Our Universe Existed Before The Big Bang – January 26, 2019
• Muscle memory discovery ends ‘use it or lose it’ dogma – January 26, 2019
• Quantum Theory Bends The Limits of Physics, Showing Two-Way Signaling May Be Possible – January 26, 2019
• Quantum Computer: We’re Planning to Create One That Acts Like a Brain – January 25, 2019
• One in five Americans wants to live forever – January 25, 2019
• On Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas – January 25, 2019
• DIY CRISPR: Genetic Engineering at Home – January 25, 2019
• Complete Axolotl Genome Could Pave the Way Toward Human Tissue Regeneration – January 24, 2019
• Teaching human cells to clean house to delay aging and fight neurodegeneration – January 24, 2019
• Three paralyzed men have walked again after receiving electric jolts to the spine – January 24, 2019
• Steve Perry presents GDF11 with an Age Reversal update – January 24, 2019
• Machine Learning and Medicine: Is AI the Future of Psychiatry? – January 24, 2019
• A simple artificial heart could permanently replace a failing human one – January 23, 2019
• New 3D nanoprinting strategy opens door to revolution in medicine, robotics – January 23, 2019
• Cancer has a biological clock and this drug may keep it from ticking – January 23, 2019
• 3D printing is changing personalised medicine, finds IDTechEx – January 23, 2019
• Timeline of cryonics – January 23, 2019
• Smoking speeds up the ageing process – January 23, 2019
• We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it – January 23, 2019
• Gene Therapy Promotes Nerve Regeneration – January 22, 2019
• The Top Biotech and Medicine Advances to Expect in 2019 – January 22, 2019
• Longevity & Vitality Part 2: A Renaissance of Drugs and Genomics – January 22, 2019
• Fecal Pills Could Restore Gut Microbiota – January 22, 2019
• How Close are We to Achieving Immortality? – January 22, 2019
• Implantable device curbs seizures and improves cognition in epileptic rats – January 22, 2019
• Can nanotechnology rewire an injured spinal cord? – January 22, 2019
• Mechanical engineers develop process to 3D print piezoelectric materials – January 22, 2019
• Energizing the immune system to eat cancer – January 22, 2019
• Method converting cancer cells into fat cells could block metastatic spread – January 22, 2019
• MSD scientists to tackle diseases of ageing at the Crick – January 22, 2019
• Doctors hope this revolutionary technology will help save millions of lives – January 22, 2019