Issue
#270
Lifeboat News
This issue published on 01/01/25. Copyright 2025 Lifeboat Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
Haematological Tumour Microenvironment and Its Therapeutic Targeting
The 5th Scientific Workshop: the Haematological Tumour Microenvironment
and its Therapeutic Targeting will be held in London, UK on February
16–18.
Our M. Carolina Florian will be speaking.
Learn more at
https://www.esh.org/conference/5th-scie...argeting
NextMed Health 2025
NextMed Health 2025 will be held in San Diego, California on March
30–April 2.
Our Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, David Bray, Jun Chen, Jamie Justice, Hans
Keirstead, Steven Kotler, Chris Mason, and Anna Yusim will be speaking.
Learn more at https://www.nextmed.health
NoRCEL’s Blue Earth Project BEP2025
NoRCEL’s Blue Earth Project BEP2025: Space Exploration…For Whom? will
be held at St George’s Conference Center in the United Kingdom and in
Cyberspace on March 22. This will be a free event and complimentary
refreshments will be served. Watch this short video about this event!
Our Sohan Jheeta is founder of NoRCEL and our David Whitehouse will be
speaking at Blue Earth Project BEP2025.
Learn more at
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blue-ear...22912679
Terasaki Innovation Summit 3
The Terasaki Innovation Summit 3 will be held March 5–7 in Woodland
Hills, California.
This summit will include key leading investigators discussing the latest
advances in micro- and nanotechnologies and applications in diagnostics,
therapeutic drug delivery, and regenerative medicine. In addition, key
business leaders and experts in translation, innovation, IP, and more
will be on hand to share their knowledge and commercial experience.
Our Ke Cheng, Ali Khademhosseini, Aydogan Ozcan, and Maurizio Vecchione
will be speaking.
Learn more at https://terasaki.org/institute/tis-home
Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board of Psychology and Neuroscience
YoungHoon Kim, who has the World’s highest IQ of 276, is now Chair of
the Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/staff
Articles
Read “Can researchers use AI to take microscopy to the next level?” at
https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistr.../102/i34
This article is about our Aydogan Ozcan’s research.
Papers
Read “Additive Manufacturing Of Regolith For Off-World Construction Applications Leveraging In-Situ Resource Utilization”, authored by our Madison Feehan at https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio...lization
Books
Read “Read AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable” by our
Roman V. Yampolskiy at https://amzn.to/4g2fQEJ
Read “The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We
Must” by our Robert Zubrin at https://amzn.to/3Z2ySUG
Read “The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Policy, and Regulation for
Human-Robot Interaction”, coedited by our Woodrow Barfield at
https://amzn.to/3Zi9UC2
Read “Homo Cosmos: Explorations in Science, Art, and Myth” by our
Jeffrey H. Collins at https://amzn.to/3V21sEA
Read “Metahumanism, Euro-Transhumanism and Sorgner’s Philosophy. Technology, Ethics, Art” which is a detailed essay collection on our
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner’s version of transhumanism at
https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/170-...ner.html
Read “Spiritual Motivation Vol. 2: New thinking for a post-Covid world”,
edited by our Jeremy Ramsden at https://amzn.to/3ZAs3LC
Videos
Watch “AI Futures” by our Jeremy Lichtman at
https://www.youtube.com/@AIPredictsFuture
Jeremy built an AI bot that predicts the future. In each video, he runs
a pressing question of the day, and discusses the AI’s results.
Blog
Matthew Calero joins our blog team with the post “New theory suggests
aging is driven by degenerative metabolic reprogramming over time” at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/new-t...ver-time
Recent interesting blog posts include:
“A company is now developing human washing machines” by Omuterema
Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/a-com...machines
“A Hunt for Clues to the Origins of the Eukaryotic Immune System” by
Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/a-hun...e-system
“A New Alloy Could Fortify Fusion Reactors—and Lead to Endless Energy”
by Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/a-new...s-energy
“A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation
walk naturally” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/a-pro...aturally
“AI Model Processes Videos by Mimicking the Human Brain” by Jose Ruben
Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/ai-mo...an-brain
“Brain-wide cell-type-specific transcriptomic signatures of healthy
ageing in mice” by The Neuro-Network at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/brain...-in-mice
“CERN’s Large Hadron Collider finds the heaviest antimatter particle
yet” by Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/cerns...icle-yet
“The City Quantum & AI Summit Experts See Potential of Quantum and AI,
Recognize Hurdles And Drawbacks” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/the-c...rawbacks
“Controlling matter at the atomic level: University of Bath
breakthrough” by Omuterema Akhahenda at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/contr...kthrough
“The Discovery of a New Semiconductor Could Revolutionize Computing” by
Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/the-d...omputing
“Dog drug may help humans slow aging, extend life, scientists explore”
by Montie Adkins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/dog-d...-explore
“Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever” by Chris Smedley at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/dont-...-forever
“Durable supramolecular plastic is fully ocean-degradable and doesn’t
generate microplastics” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/durab...plastics
“Earth’s North Magnetic Pole Has Officially Been Repositioned—Here’s
Why It Matters for Everyone” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/earth...everyone
“FDA Approves New Cancer Treatments” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/fda-a...eatments
“The First Carbon-14 Diamond Battery Is Here—and It Could Run for 5,700
Years” by Jason Blain at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/the-f...00-years
“Gameto Announces World’s First Live Birth Using Fertilo Procedure that
Matures Eggs Outside the Body” by Cecile G. Tamura at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/gamet...the-body
“Google DeepMind Unveils Veo 2, A New AI Video Model To Rival OpenAI’s
Sora” by Bruce Burke at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/googl...ais-sora
“Gramicidin: Interesting Wikipedia article on gramicidin: a
non-ribosomal peptide which can be used as a topical antibacterial
(against gram positive bacterial)” by Logan Thrasher Collins at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/grami...acterial
“Harvard Scientist Dr. David Sinclair’s New Perspective to Solve Aging @
MIT Media Lab” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/harva...edia-lab
“How Vitamin D Deficiency can Lead to Autoimmune Diseases” by Natalie
Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/how-v...diseases
“Joachim Keppler — The Path to Sentient Robots: AI Consciousness in the
Light of New Insights…” by Dan Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/joach...insights
“The liver converts fructose into lipids to fuel tumours” by Chavis
Srichan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/the-l...-tumours
“The Musk-Led Manufacturing Revolution Nobody Is Talking About” by
Michael LaTorra at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/the-m...ng-about
“Nanoplastics may lead to the development of antibiotic resistance” by
Tom Soetebier at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/nanop...sistance
“New CRISPR system pauses genes, rather than turning them off
permanently” by Dan Kummer at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/new-c...manently
“New technique for spotting Dyson rings unveiled” by Shubham Ghosh Roy
at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/new-t...unveiled
“New treatment called histotripsy kills cancer cells with sound and
water” by Quinn Sena at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/new-t...nd-water
“Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘Personal AI Supercomputer’ Will Let You Ditch the Data
Center” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/nvidi...a-center
“Patients Warned Not To Rely on AI Chatbots For Safe And Accurate Drug
Information” by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/patie...ormation
“Proof-of-concept study bioengineers therapeutics for improved cancer
treatment” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/proof...reatment
“Regenerative medicine: Revolutionising osteoarthritis treatment” by
Shubham Ghosh Roy at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/regen...reatment
“Shocking New Memory Tech: Crystal-to-Glass Transformation Using a
Billion Times Less Energy” by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/shock...s-energy
“Strange RNA Based Structures Point at The Origins of Life (Biomolecular
Condensates)” by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/stran...densates
“Synthetic Genes Engineered to Mimic how Cells Build Tissues and
Structures” by Natalie Chan at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/synth...ructures
“Tesla Holiday Software Update Adds Apple Watch, SiriusXM Apps, Usual
Silliness” by Genevieve Klien at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/tesla...illiness
“Tiny 15 mm robot from China zips past speed records in robotics” by
Shailesh Prasad at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/tiny-...robotics
“Tiny ‘Organs’ Hiding in Our Cells Could Challenge The Origins of Life”
by Paul Battista at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/tiny-...-of-life
“Why Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol Is A Big Step In The Evolution
Of AI Agents” by Bruce Burke at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/why-a...i-agents
“‘Why we might be alone’ Public Lecture by Prof David Kipping” by Dan
Breeden at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/why-w...-kipping
“World’s first stem cell treatment restores vision in cornea-damaged
patients” by Arthur Brown at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/world...patients
“Your Brain Flushes Out Waste Every Night… Here’s How To Help It Clean
Up” by Robert Bosnjak at
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/your-...clean-up
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