• A Bitcoin-based organ-trading network for Europe was proposed, leveraging Eurotransplant and the German Organ Transplantation Foundation to exploit the continent’s dense population and existing transplant infrastructure.  
• Participants debated the technical hurdles of 3-D-printed livers: cells die rapidly outside the body, so the first credible validation will likely come from animal implantation or perfusion chambers that mimic human physiology rather than from plastic scaffolds alone.  
• The Blue Brain Project reportedly secured up to €1 billion over ten years for whole-brain emulation, with EPFL’s Henry Markram distributing funds to multiple labs; Dutch Human Brain Project members were urged to share internal progress.  
• A 20,000-line open-source patch to OpenEMR—delivered in five weeks—adds credentialing, emergency-event logging, frame-to-frame JavaScript injection, and security fixes without triggering new FDA certification requirements.  
• A longevity-research thread highlighted a PLOS ONE paper (10.1371/journal.pone.0053760) showing that telomerase reverse transcriptase plus calorie restriction extends mouse lifespan, prompting discussion of deliberately breeding mice for maximum lifespan.  
• A Frontiers paper, “Preparing synthetic biology for the world” (Moe-Behrens et al., 2013), and the short film “compound74” were shared, crediting Harvard’s Pam Silver lab and Jake Wintermute for early microbial engineering of LSD precursors.  
• A $10 DIY pulsed-field gel-electrophoresis power supply—just a bridge rectifier run straight from AC mains—was debated; safety warnings included capacitor discharge arcs and a 1997 mailing-list post on the same hack.  
• A working air-based thermocycler from 1990 was reported; it uses inexpensive halogen bulbs for heating and offers a low-cost, open-source route to PCR.