- A merger/acquisitions executive contacted kanzure after reading “Biopunk” and wants to start a DIY-bio project; the plan narrowed to purchasing a used ABI Prism 310 DNA sequencer to follow the SoCal-DIYBio protocol (http://socal-diybio.org/Gene_Sequencer).  
- SoCal-DIYBio obtained their ABI 310 for free, but it arrived with hardware issues (argon laser failure), prompting discussion on whether to buy a working unit (~$4 k) or attempt repairs.  
- kanzure released a previously offline Thingiverse scraper script (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/thingiverse/2010scraper/thingiverse.py) and discussed adding example links to package_spec.yaml.  
- Open discussion on induced pluripotent stem cells: kanzure shared a curated set of papers and quick-reference notes showing that any somatic cell—including dental pulp—can now be reprogrammed to pluripotency without viral vectors (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/stem-cells/).  
- A DIYbio participant scheduled to have wisdom teeth extracted asked about cryopreserving the dental pulp stem cells; consensus was “no reason not to,” with pointers to incomplete but available DIY harvesting protocols.  
- Community debate on cognitive-enhancement drugs: personal experiences with modafinil vs. Adderall for ADHD were exchanged, along with links to literature reviews on alternative treatments and pharmacokinetics (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/adderall.txt).  
- RepRap project updates: Adrian Bowyer is teaching master classes in the UK, and the project claims 1,000-fold growth in numbers; kanzure criticized continued use of Blender instead of OpenCASCADE for CAD work.  
- Open Source Ecology’s “Global Village Construction Set” (GVCS) roadmap targets full machine completion by 2012 and the first “working post-scarcity community” by 2014, prompting skepticism about replicability.  
- Henry Markram delivered a new talk on the Blue Brain Project, linked via Brain Forum on-demand videos (http://www.brainforum.it/brainforum-2011-ondemand).  
- Gavin Scott (Allegro) warned that DIYbio should avoid associating with high-risk self-experiments, comparing them to extreme dietary interventions lacking medical consensus.