- A blog post demonstrated that the x86 instruction set remains Turing-complete even when restricted to zero registers, offering a striking theoretical result about minimal computational architectures.  
- Illumina launched a six-month genomics accelerator providing $100 k in support, Mission Bay lab space, and subsidized access to Illumina sequencers and reagents; participants weighed the relative value of cash versus discounted consumables.  
- Illumina’s cloud platform “BaseSpace” was critiqued for its limited SDK (C#, Java, Python) and discussed as part of the company’s broader push into bioinformatics services.  
- A Caltech paper on “On the biophysics and kinetics of toehold-mediated DNA strand displacement” was circulated, with an archived copy automatically mirrored by paperbot.  
- NPR coverage of “lung-in-a-box” ex-vivo organ perfusion technology prompted speculation about microcontroller-regulated perfusion systems and their potential extension to sustaining isolated brains as a transhumanist life-support milestone.  
- Andreas Jansson’s open-source “Celltone” project—a live-coding language for musical pattern generation—was shared, including its SoundCloud demo, web playground, and GitHub repository.  
- A community member announced an initiative to reverse-engineer a scanning electron microscope into a fully open-source “Free Hardware” design, inviting collaborators and planning to relocate the effort from Washington, DC to Boston within five months.