- Nature and the particle-physics community announced a new open-access agreement that reinforces the field’s tradition of free literature sharing, providing a model for other sciences.  
- MIT researchers demonstrated contact-less manipulation of magnetic microbeads with oscillating magnetic fields, eliminating the need for microfluidic channels and pointing toward low-cost “lab-on-a-chip” diagnostics; details at http://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/miot-omb092512.php.  
- ScienceExchange.com expanded its commercial bio-lab marketplace to include “animal husbandry” services, further commoditizing outsourced wet-lab work.  
- Juul is developing a CouchDB-based platform for secure, replicated sharing of biological parts, using Couch replication filters and HMAC-based update validation to prevent malicious edits.  
- Kanzure proposed an open-source, Node.js replacement for the paid EZproxy academic-paper gateway, while also confirming he already has broad journal access via EZproxy.  
- nmz787 and kanzure collaboratively updated the Wikipedia “DIYbio” page, adding cited hardware examples (OpenPCR, DremelFuge, SpikerBox) and a new “Outreach” section documenting FBI engagement with the community since 2009.  
- Participants debated whether the “biopunk” vs. “DIYbio” distinction is largely a marketing construct, noting that Wikipedia’s “biopunk” article once focused on science fiction and now redirects without a separate movement page.  
- A curated set of 186 DIYbio news citations in Wikipedia-ready format was released at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diybio/citations.txt to improve article sourcing.