• 23andMe’s Black-Friday price drop to $99 (code UA3XJH) sparked plans for a “channel genome pool” and a gamified disease-risk comparison tool, while participants questioned the clinical value of the 1 M-tag SNP array and linked specific variants to stroke and neuro-cognitive risks via ScienceDaily and ACNR papers.

• DIYgenomics founder Melanie Swan circulated an abstract describing an open, patient-organized clinical trial that applies GWAS to aging research, highlighting a new model of participant-driven science.

• Hong-Kong researchers demonstrated 90 GB of data stored in 1 g of engineered bacteria, reviving interest in DNA-based archival storage and synthetic-biology memory systems.

• Printable plastic AFM parts were uploaded to Thingiverse, but the group emphasized that open hardware documentation and control software, not the 3-D-printed components themselves, are the critical open-science deliverables.

• A mouse experiment was proposed to knock out cerebellum-development genes, verify resulting memory deficits, then implant a synthetic cerebellum to restore function—creating a removable, transferable memory test-bed.

• Artificial evolution of virtual “animats” was advocated as a faster route to task-solving neural architectures than reverse-engineering biology, potentially yielding non-biological but superior algorithms.

• The group envisioned portable memories stored in an external “crystal” device that could be transplanted into cloned bodies, enabling functional immortality and seamless identity continuity across biological substrates.

• Discussion turned to DARPA-grade lethal autonomy, speculating that facial-recognition micro-drones could achieve near-perfect, collateral-free targeted assassination, illustrating rapid AI militarization.

• Memristors were briefly flagged as an emerging hardware component relevant to neuromorphic computing and future memory-transfer systems.