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Current Programs AIShield AsteroidShield BioShield InfoPreserver InternetShield LifePreserver LifeShield Bunkers NanoShield ScientificFreedomShield SecurityPreserver Space Habitats X-Risks Network News Learn about our 3 books . Lifeboat Foundation has launched the world’s FIRST bitcoin endowment fund. Learn more ! Our LifeShield Bunkers program now enables you to participate in a local LifeShield Bunker. Read the Popular Science feature (that features the Lifeboat Foundation) After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet . Partners Latest News Apr 29, 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 ! Apr 29, 2020 Steve Horvath , who coauthored Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans , joins our Life Extension Board. Apr 26, 2020 Our José Luis Cordeiro has authored the special report 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. Apr 26, 2020 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 . Apr 15, 2020 Adiv A. Johnson , coauthor of The role of DNA methylation in aging, rejuvenation, and age-related disease , joins our Life Extension Board. Apr 5, 2020 Read issue #212 of Lifeboat News! Apr 4, 2020 Theoretical physicist, author, and broadcaster, Jim Al-Khalili , joins our Physics Board. Jim is Professor of Theoretical Physics, Public Engagement in Science, and a Distinguished Chair at University of Surrey, where he has also held a personal chair in physics since 2005 alongside a university chair in Public Engagement in Science. He is also presenter of the long-running weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific . Apr 4, 2020 One of our Lifeboat Foundation Advisory Board members has a solution to the shortage of face masks, and this solution is a design for others to copy and make themselves, for: (1) materials which work well at filtering 100 nm particles (the approximate size of COVID-19), and (2) sealing the mask against inward leakage. Many commonly used homemade materials do not filter viruses very well, so choosing good DIY homemade materials is important. However, if air bypasses a mask, then it needs to be sealed. Learn more ! Apr 1, 2020 Lorna Harries joins our Life Extension Board. She is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter. Read Small molecule modulation of splicing factor expression is associated with rescue from cellular senescence . Mar 23, 2020 Bill D’Zio joins our blog team with the post Final NASA Seats on Soyuz in 2020 . Mar 23, 2020 Alex M. Vikoulov , author of The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution , joins our Futurists Board. Mar 23, 2020 Goffredo Giordano , Mentor at Singularity University , joins our Futurists Board. more news Upcoming Events 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 Judith Campisi , Keith Comito , Aubrey de Grey , Peter Fedichev , Vadim Gladyshev , Andrei Gudkov , Steve Horvath , Brian Kennedy , Joshua Mitteldorf , Alexey Moskalev , and Matthew O’Connor will be speaking. Learn more ! 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 , and Adiv A. Johnson 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 ! world news Lifeboat TV Click on the channel number to go to the page shown! Also view our educational videos ! Featured Stories Alexander “Sasha” Kashlinsky , who has discovered “dark flow” which is causing hundreds of clusters of galaxies to stream en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe, joins our Cosmology Board. Sasha is Senior Staff Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. We have launched a LinkedIn group for our Advisory Board members. The goal of this group is to help members: Reach other members of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards. Accelerate careers/business through referrals from Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards LinkedIn group members. Know more than a name — view rich professional profiles from fellow Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards members. Antonietta Gatti , coauthor of Nanopathology: The Health Impact of Nanoparticles , joins our Nanotechnology Board. We have quotes by the late Michael Crichton on our Quotes page. Ed Begley Jr. , actor, environmentalist, and founder of Begley’s Best , joins our Sustainability Board. We now have a quote by Jeff Bezos on our Quotes page. Jeff is founder...