- A participant hinted at a potential breakthrough involving “3-D milling micro-” for an unspecified transhumanist or bio-fabrication application, but left the idea undeveloped.  
- Discussion centered on how to obtain the human reference genome in a single, convenient FASTA (.fa) file rather than the usual per-chromosome .gz archives; the Pirate Bay torrent for the Human Genome Project was mentioned as poorly seeded.  
- The 1000 Genomes Project was recommended as an alternative source, with its full dataset available at http://www.1000genomes.org/data and some files already mirrored on Amazon S3.  
- A brief critique noted that Elsevier’s ScienceDirect now serves Google ads alongside pay-walled academic papers, prompting complaints about double-dipping monetization.  
- A longevity-focused Skype discussion was being organized by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), with a request to recruit the user “edebonneuil.”