Lifeboat Foundation

PhD student researching Aging, Mitochondria, and Regenerative medicine.

I currently write for The Conversation and I have written for The Guardian

Ringleader of the Oxford University Scientific Society

Co-conspirator at the Oxford University Transhumanists

Designing exciting events with the Co-conspirator at the British Science Association Oxford

Also, I am an Ultimate (frisbee) enthusiast — Yes, unfortunately that’s me trying to catch the frisbee

76 posts by Roy

• Aging Research Internships Available 8 – February 27, 2017
• Aging Research Internships Available 7 – January 25, 2017
• Aging Research Internships Available 6 – December 14, 2016
• Aging Research Internships Available 5 – October 26, 2016
• Aging Research Internships Available 4 – September 13, 2016
• Aging Research Internships Available 3 – August 11, 2016
• Aging Research Internships Available 2 – July 4, 2016
• Aging Research Internships Available – May 24, 2016
• This exoskeleton lets you know what it is to age – January 8, 2016
• Gene Editing Treats Disease In A Living Animal For The First Time – January 6, 2016
• The Limit Of Healthy Living: Are We Hitting A Life Expectancy Plateau? – January 5, 2016
• The 2015 Round Up: Our Biggest Longevity Stories This Year – December 31, 2015
• The First Human Life Extension Trial – December 13, 2015
• Resetting The Clock: New Enzyme Found To Repair Telomeres – November 14, 2015
• Undoing Sugar Damage: First Synthesis Of Culprit Glucosepane – November 10, 2015
• A Bright Future: Breakthrough Gene Editing Trial Reverses Leukaemia – November 9, 2015
• Using Heat-Seeking Bubbles To Destroy Cancer – November 4, 2015
• Cryonics Is No Fantasy, Should We Be Taking It Seriously? – November 2, 2015
• An Aging Map: Removing These 238 Genes Might Increase Your Lifespan – October 11, 2015
• Our Aging World: The Striking Statistics About Cancer – October 10, 2015
• A Heart Of Foam: This Simple Artificial Heart Could Save Your Life – October 9, 2015
• Our Aging World: The Striking Statistics About Dementia – October 8, 2015
• The Dark Side of Antioxidants – October 8, 2015
• 3 Drugs With Anti-Aging Potential – October 2, 2015
• In The Genes: Longevity Secrets From Long-Lived Smokers – September 16, 2015
• Can A Healthy Gut Help You Live Longer? – September 15, 2015
• Getting DNA Into Cells Is Tough, But This Nanoinjector Is Here To Help – September 14, 2015
• Aging Causes Muscle Weakness And Atrophy, But Can We Treat It? – September 14, 2015
• Hacking The Body: This Implant Can Trap Cancer Cells – September 13, 2015
• Our Aging World: Wave Goodbye To The Population Pyramid – September 12, 2015
• Can Calorie Restriction Actually Reduce Lifespan? Take A Look At This – September 9, 2015
• A stem cell adventure – September 9, 2015
• Where Do New Genes Come From? – September 8, 2015
• A Transfusion Of Young Blood Might Help You Live Longer, But Is It A Fountain Of Youth Or A Poisoned Chalice? – September 8, 2015
• Everyone’s Heard Of The Ice Bucket Challenge For ALS – September 7, 2015
• Watch These Embryonic Stem Cells Morph Into Neurons – September 6, 2015
• The Longevity Reporter: The Weekly Newsletter on Aging (05th September, 2015) – September 4, 2015
• The Longevity Dividend – September 4, 2015
• The Genomics Revolution: Building An App Store For Genomes – September 4, 2015
• The Future Of Health: Precision Medicine – September 3, 2015
• Delivering Drugs And Removing Toxins With 3-D Printed Micro-Robots – September 3, 2015
• Dramatic Advances In Super-Resolution Imaging: – September 3, 2015
• Can You Help Promote Healthy Life Extension? Enter This Short Film Competition – September 2, 2015
• Can We Reprogram Cancer Cells Back To Normal? – August 26, 2015
• Modifiable Risk Factors For Alzheimer’s – August 25, 2015
• The Future Of Health: Stem Cells – August 23, 2015
• Rise Of The Organoids: Miniature Human Brain Most Complete To Date – August 22, 2015
• The Longevity Reporter: The Weekly Newsletter on Aging (22nd August, 2015) – August 22, 2015
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Is It Time To Look Beyond Amyloid? – August 22, 2015
• Peto’s Paradox: Why Don’t Larger Animals Get Cancer More Often? – August 20, 2015
• Killing Cancer Through Overstimulation – August 19, 2015
• What Is Synthetic Biology? – August 18, 2015
• Antioxidants: Separating Myth From Reality – August 17, 2015
• Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish – August 17, 2015
• 10 Enduring Health Myths, Debunked By Science – August 16, 2015
• Microbes And Alzheimer’s Disease, Is There A Link? – August 16, 2015
• An Entire Nervous System Captured On Film For The First Time – August 15, 2015
• The Longevity Reporter: The Weekly Newsletter on Aging (15th August, 2015) – August 14, 2015
• Our Aging Immune System: Can Antioxidants Combat The Decline? – August 13, 2015
• Overcoming Scarring: Cell Signalling Pathway Could Promote Regeneration – August 12, 2015
• 3-D Printing: Could Downloadable Medicine Be The Future? – August 11, 2015
• How Does Chronic Inflammation Lead To Cancer? – August 10, 2015
• Low Inflammation and Telomere Maintenance Predict Healthy Longevity – August 10, 2015
• The Aging Brain: A Case Of Bad Waste Management – August 8, 2015
• The Vampire Effect: Promising Rejuvenation Trial Requires Young Blood – August 7, 2015
• Hierarchies of Evidence — Pseudoscience v. Evidence Based Medicine – August 6, 2015
• Think 80 Years Is A Long Time? Take a Look At This – August 6, 2015
• Why Are Tech Billionaires Investing In Aging Research? – August 6, 2015
• More Evidence That Faulty Protein Formation Contributes To Aging – August 5, 2015
• The false allure of centenarians — Why centenarians epitomise our fears about growing old – March 5, 2014
• Predicting lifespan in a flash … at least in worms – February 24, 2014
• The seven deadly sins of health and science reporting – December 5, 2013
• Do unemployed people age faster? – November 21, 2013
• Meat grown in labs is the next logical step for food production – August 5, 2013
• Lust for life: breaking the 120-year barrier in human ageing – June 3, 2013
• If you want to live longer, do nothing – May 19, 2013