Lifeboat Foundation

James Peyer has been a scientist, entrepreneur, and advisor to biotechs and pharma companies, always with a specialization for developing new classes of therapeutics. James founded Apollo to support biotech entrepreneurs strategically, scientifically, and financially as they create the next generation of medicines.

James Peyer received his PhD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow and worked on the basic biology of stem cells and improving gene therapies. He founded his first company, Genotyp, at 21 to overhaul hands-on science education in the US. Genotyp’s innovative biotech equipment leasing model and instructor training earned it the approval of the White House and the National Institutes of Health. It became the first biotech company to receive funding through Kickstarter.com. He received a BA with special honors from the University of Chicago, where he studied immunology.

Discoveries in aging biology are ready for acceleration to the clinic, where they can treat age-related disease and extend healthy lifespan.

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Our message as Transhumanists has gone eschewed. We have a communication problem and we need to fix this.

We need to find a place where our words are not viewed as a threat.

For some time now, we have an urgent need to focus on our messaging within our Transhumanist community. We also need to focus on the messaging we provide to people outside of our community as well. Below is a video by TruthStream Media, who has taken our messages and put them successfully into a.

A STUNNING breakthrough in new war weapons has been announced — one which will see soldiers control military planes with their minds.

All three of these surprising achievements are highlighted in the Goalkeepers 2018 Data Report, written by Bill and Melinda Gates and released on Sept. 18. But the dispatch—an assessment of the progress made so far on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals and done with the help of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation—is anything but rah-rah. For every encouraging data point, indeed, there is one that alarms. For every promising advance in the global war on poverty and disease is a perilous outcome if we lose focus or steam.

A report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on four key areas: Health, education, sanitation, and family planning.

Here’s a slider photo of Planet satellite images showing Barangay Ucab, Itogon, Benguet before and after the Typhoon #OmpongPH-induced landslide event.

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We’ve missed you Pluto. (via Thrillist)

A new paper argues that Pluto should be considered a planet again.

On Jan. 1, NASA’s New Horizons will perform a high-risk, high-reward flyby of an ancient world on the outskirts of the solar system.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is just over 100 days away from a high-risk, high-reward flyby of an ancient world on the outskirts of the solar system.

On New Year’s Day 2019, the spacecraft will come within 3,500 kilometers of 2014 MU69, an estimated 37-kilometer-wide object the mission team has nicknamed Ultima Thule. The encounter will take place 6.6 billion kilometers from Earth, where it takes more than 6 hours for radio signals traveling at the speed of light to reach NASA’s Deep Space Network.

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In a new NASA-led study, scientists used GPS data to track where Hurricane Harvey’s stormwater went and how long it took to dissipate.

Researchers think it could play an important function in devices using IoT and medical applications.