Lifeboat Foundation

Lola Heavey is Webmaster at the Network for Church Monitoring.

82 posts by Lola Heavey

• What’s stopping us from using CRISPR to gene edit humans to fight disease? – February 1, 2021
• Shoot for the Moon: Its Surface Contains a Pot of Gold – January 25, 2021
• Venus may have once been habitable: Can we make it that way again? – January 21, 2021
• The Physical Effects of Living in Space Could Create a New Human Species – January 17, 2021
• Going Interplanetary – How Can We Build a Lunar Colony? – January 8, 2021
• Are We Going to Colonize the Moon? – January 6, 2021
• How to detect life on Mars – December 21, 2020
• We Must Be Our Own Kennedy – December 16, 2020
• Elon Musk, Artificial Intelligence and OpenAI – December 14, 2020
• Genetic Engineering Might Help Pave Humanity’s Way to Mars – December 12, 2020
• Reaching for the Stars: The Case for Interstellar Travel – December 7, 2020
• Making the First Martians: Building an Economy on Mars – November 30, 2020
• How to make the food and water Mars-bound astronauts will need for their mission – November 29, 2020
• The Driest Place on Earth Could Help Predict How Life Might Be Surviving on Mars – November 21, 2020
• Synthetic biology crucial to human missions to Mars – November 18, 2020
• Why is Mars so important for humanity? – November 12, 2020
• The future of space colonization – terraforming or space habitats? – November 9, 2020
• It is time to return to the Moon, open Free Space and go to Mars – November 7, 2020
• How to live in space: what we’ve learned from 20 years of the International Space Station – November 6, 2020
• Making the First Martians: Living on the Red Planet – November 5, 2020
• Reaching for the Moon, Mars and beyond: This is how space exploration can benefit all – November 4, 2020
• How to Go to Mars – To Stay – October 20, 2020
• Engineering Living Organisms Could Be the World’s Biggest Industry – September 18, 2020
• How gene therapy could help astronauts survive deep space deadly radiation – September 16, 2020
• Quest to colonize space demands boost from biotechnology, synthetic biology – September 3, 2020
• Settling the final frontier – August 25, 2020
• Space technology is improving our lives and making the world a better place. Here’s how – August 5, 2020
• Will SpaceX Colonists Find Life On The Red Planet? – July 15, 2020
• 7 Things to Know About the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission – July 14, 2020
• The Booming Space Economy – July 12, 2020
• China Can Now Enforce Its “Brave New World” Tyranny – July 10, 2020
• This map shows that Mars and Earth aren’t that different – July 9, 2020
• Elon Musk believes he has a 70% likelihood of flying to Mars – June 26, 2020
• Professor Brian Cox says humans will soon be living on Mars – June 25, 2020
• We must become a multi-planet species – June 23, 2020
• The Case for Colonizing Mars – June 20, 2020
• Here’s what potential Mars colonists really need from Earth: A large gene pool – June 16, 2020
• Elon Musk makes getting humans to Mars his top priority – June 12, 2020
• Have humans reached the end of evolution? Not under these 4 scenarios – June 9, 2020
• Is it time to use CRISPR to save biodiversity? – June 8, 2020
• Battling Parkinson’s disease – June 1, 2020
• Are we ready for the artificial womb? – May 26, 2020
• A Major breakthrough in reversing the cellular aging process – May 21, 2020
• Regulation Too Often Shackles the Hands of Innovators – May 20, 2020
• Life on Mars? Will we find it? Will we colonize the Red Planet? – May 16, 2020
• Lab-Grown Mini Kidneys Are Bringing Science Closer to Custom Organs – May 15, 2020
• Supercharged brains and the quest to think better and faster – May 12, 2020
• Deep-space travel, colonization may rely on genetically engineered life forms – April 29, 2020
• Why synthetic biology is about much more than resurrecting woolly mammoths – April 27, 2020
• Systems Biology and the Coming of “Big” Science – April 25, 2020
• Body part regeneration: How science can make the jump from fantasy to reality – April 20, 2020
• Frozen in time: You can be cryogenically preserved, but will you ever be revived? – April 19, 2020
• We can identify ‘bad’ genes. Why can’t we use CRISPR gene editing to get rid of them? – April 15, 2020
• Religious beliefs shape our thinking on cloning, stem cells and gene editing – April 7, 2020
• Creating Superman (and woman): Who benefits from human enhancement? – April 5, 2020
• The 47th State Panacea or Perversion – April 5, 2020
• ‘Rebooting the brain’: Our fight to bring people back from the dead – April 3, 2020
• Our brains as hard drives – could we delete, modify or add memories and skills? – April 2, 2020
• Six Reasons Why Humans Should Return to the Moon – March 25, 2020
• A Surprising Breakthrough Will Allow Tiny Implants to Fix – and Even Upgrade – Your Body – March 19, 2020
• Frequently Asked Questions on the Ethics of Lifespan and Healthspan Extension – March 19, 2020
• Econogenomics: The Economics of Genomic Testing for Health – March 10, 2020
• Genome Sequencing for Healthy People: Is it Time? – March 6, 2020
• Human gene editing is too transformative to be guided by the few – March 6, 2020
• Our Genetic Future Is Coming… Faster Than We Think – March 5, 2020
• The designer baby debate could start a war – March 4, 2020
• Is Sex for Reproduction About to Become Extinct? – March 3, 2020
• Building a Positive Genetic Future for All – February 28, 2020
• Hacking DNA: The Story of CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive – February 27, 2020
• Ten steps to prepare for an exponential future – February 26, 2020
• The Techno-Human Shell – A Jump in the Evolutionary Gap – February 21, 2020
• You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet – February 20, 2020
• Homo Sapiens 2.0? We need a species-wide conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement – February 19, 2020
• How Gene Editing Is Changing the World – February 18, 2020
• 10 Reasons to Build The Human Genome From Scratch – February 18, 2020
• Why human gene editing must not be stopped – February 18, 2020
• The Value of Space Exploration – February 18, 2020
• Gene Editing is Advancing at Breakneck Speed – February 18, 2020
• Writing Our Genome – February 18, 2020
• Synthetic genomics – Inside the effort to create entire genomes from scratch – February 18, 2020
• Is It Too Soon to Consider Genome Sequencing for Newborns? – February 18, 2020
• We cannot predict with any precision where technology will lead us – February 18, 2020