- Science Exchange is being marketed to researchers with expiring FY-2013 grants as a way to “pre-pay” for experiments before the use-it-or-lose-it deadline, with participants half-seriously suggesting Bitcoin as a payment option.  
- Project Marilyn (indysci.org) is crowdfunding open-source anti-cancer drug development and has added an infosec/reverse-engineering specialist in San Diego to the team.  
- Mozilla Science launched “Code as a Research Object,” an initiative to make scientific software citable and archivable like traditional research outputs.  
- A DIY tDCS design using an LM334 current source, JFET limiter, ESD protection, fuse, and 9 V battery was discussed, but no fully “safe” open schematic could be identified.  
- Participants sought biocompatible photopolymers that can be photocured like PLA and support cell growth; no off-the-shelf materials were found.  
- Implantable inorganics (Ti, Pt-Ir, PMMA, PTFE, ePTFE, parylene-C) were reviewed for transdermal use, with consensus that reliable skin-interface integration without infection remains unsolved.  
- IEEE Spectrum’s “Bitcoins in Space” article was shared, detailing Jeff Garzik’s plan to launch CubeSats as secondary payloads to create an orbital Bitcoin transaction relay network by 2015.  
- Northwestern University’s high-density peptide microarray technology (SAMDI-MS) was circulated as a new tool for profiling deacetylase activities in cell lysates.