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Lifeboat News #270

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#270

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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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