- A 2014 YouTube animation mapping the historical expansion of the global IPv4 address space was shared as a data-visualization reference.  
- Daeken published his 23andMe raw SNP file and Promethease health report, highlighting a false-positive lactose-tolerance call and illustrating current limits of polygenic risk prediction.  
- Participants reviewed the FDA’s 2013 restriction on 23andMe health interpretations, noting that new customers now receive only ancestry plus raw genotypes, and asked whether any consumer-accessible bead-chip genotyping services still provide full health reports.  
- Two Hackaday Prize projects were spotlighted: an open-source spectrometer that finished 11th in community voting, and a DIY electron-beam physical-vapor-deposition (EBPVD) rig built from a CRT television for custom laser-optics fabrication.  
- The OpenWorm team was reported to have abandoned IRC for Google Hangouts, prompting criticism about reduced openness in collaborative development.  
- kanzure surfaced research on MC1R and melanocortin receptors to question why mandrill blue pigmentation is not explained by known melanocortin variants.  
- A CDC announcement of forgotten smallpox samples discovered in an NIH storage room was circulated, underscoring ongoing biosafety and historical containment concerns.  
- A newcomer claimed prior crowdsourced nootropic work and floated a $5 k DIY gene-therapy proposal for diabetes, then lamented regulatory barriers to self-experimentation.  
- The group discussed a model in which everyone harbors small numbers of cancerous cells kept in check by immune surveillance, citing OncoLab’s circulating-tumor-cell assay that reports quantitative burden rather than simple positive/negative results and framing cancer as a dynamic equilibrium tipped by immune suppression or aggressive phenotypes.