- The channel crowdsourced and mirrored several open-access papers on whole-body metabolic modeling that integrate macronutrient balance, insulin dynamics, lipolysis, gluconeogenesis, de-novo lipogenesis and ketogenesis; files were placed at diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/ to seed better open-source simulation tools.  
- Participants argued that current public nutrition discussions lack hormonal granularity—especially explicit blood-insulin concentrations—and called for open, meal-level simulators to replace the “bro-science” dominating forums like Hacker News.  
- The SKDB Lego package was split into a standalone ikiwiki at diyhpl.us/lego/; only “threads”, “screw” and “dremelfuge” are considered complete, with data-format and tolerance-representation issues still blocking broader GVCS hardware coverage.  
- Modern Meadow’s Reddit AMA on 3-D-printed cultured meat was highlighted as an early signal that scalable tissue manufacturing is moving from lab demos to potential consumer products.  
- Technical tooling gaps were noted: no direct pdb2stl converter exists, forcing a chain of pdb2pov → pov2stl; kanzure offered helper scripts (stl2pov.py, pov2png.py, iges2stl.py, iges2png.py) as interim solutions.  
- Grass-roots synthetic-biology efforts were signaled by sharing the “Build A Genome” PDF from the Los Angeles biohackers group (biohackers.la).  
- Wired’s article on Freescale’s tiny ARM chip for ingestible electronics was posted, with confirmation that the company is actively collaborating on swallowable-sensor projects.