- A Nature article and follow-up comments claim that Japanese groups have already 3-D-printed the basement-membrane scaffolds needed to grow complete, immunologically silent lungs or esophagi from a patient’s own stem cells in 1–2 months, but that the key patents were sold to U.S. pharma for “a couple hundred million dollars,” allegedly delaying worldwide deployment.  
- A PLOS Genetics paper (doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002780) was highlighted for achieving a 130 % lifespan extension in C. elegans by stacking four transgenic interventions, two of which (lyz and ucp2) were imported from zebrafish.  
- Discussion framed Olympic bans on performance-enhancing technologies (LZR swimsuits, Pistorius’ prosthetics) as the latest collision between the “heroic unmodified human” ideal and accelerating body-modification tech, predicting that sports organizations will either adapt or become obsolete.  
- Participants debated the need for a standardized metabolic-screening protocol—rather than one-size-fits-all diet or nootropic plans—to quantify individual responses and possible heritability of dietary effectiveness.  
- A Vice article on “3-D printed drugs” was ridiculed for conflating plastic filament with pharmaceutical chemistry, underscoring skepticism toward media hype around 3-D printing.  
- A job posting circulated for a lab-manager/technician to run a small University of Illinois cleanroom (mems@uiuc.edu), with the caveat of relocating to Champaign, IL.  
- Alessandro Delfanti’s PhD thesis “Genome Hackers, rebel biology, open source and science ethic” and forthcoming book were noted as early academic treatments of DIYbio culture; links to PDFs and an Edinburgh Book Festival panel (Aug 13 2012) were shared.  
- DIYHPlusWiki editing was re-enabled for anonymous registration after an earlier lockdown, with admins cautioning against empty-password accounts on the gnusha server.