• A Nature paper on “cerebral organoids” was highlighted: researchers grew 3-D human brain tissue from pluripotent stem cells that recapitulate early cortical development and can model microcephaly, offering a new in-vitro platform for studying human brain development and neurological disease.  
• The full PDF of the organoid paper was retrieved via LibGen and mirrored at diyhpl.us/~nmz787/pdf/Cerebral_organoids_model_human_brain_development_and_microcephaly.pdf after the BBC news summary was posted.  
• Discussion of open-access literature tools: paperbot successfully resolved IEEE and Nature DOIs through LibGen mirrors, while participants mocked ScienceDirect’s “ShoppingCartURL” scheme as an example of publisher interface absurdity.  
• kanzure released an improved Python package for the DeathByCaptcha anti-captcha service (https://github.com/kanzure/python-deathbycaptcha), refactoring error handling and packaging while noting the upstream code was a third-party contribution of “random bloke” quality.  
• Bitcoin-denominated investment vehicles were listed as resources for funding open biotech or transhumanist projects: btct.co, bitfunder.com, mpex.co, havelockinvestments.com, with ASICMINER-PT given as an example security.