• A 2012 study (Jarosz et al.) showed that a blood-alcohol level of 0.075 % improves creative problem-solving on the Remote Associates Test, suggesting a reproducible cognitive enhancement protocol.

• Octopus vulgaris produces 100 000–500 000 transparent planktonic eggs, enabling non-invasive imaging and automated life-long tracking; participants proposed using this output for rapid artificial-selection experiments targeting intelligence-related traits such as brain size and problem-solving ability.

• Light-sheet microscopy now permits whole-brain, single-cell-resolution functional imaging of zebrafish in real time; coupling this with optogenetic actuators could create a “fish matrix” for closed-loop neuroscience experiments.

• Global octopus aquaculture is bottlenecked by <1 % paralarval survival past 30 days due to nutritional deficits; formulated micro-diets and palatability enhancers are under active study, while Mayab Mollusks claims the first hatch-to-market cycle for Octopus maya.

• Circular mRNA lacking a stop codon was proposed by the 2014 Gifu iGEM team as a mechanism for “infinite translation,” potentially allowing mass production of arbitrarily large proteins without ribosome termination.

• The HUST-Innovators iGEM team engineered yeast to synthesize the omega-3 fatty acids DPA and DHA, offering a scalable microbial route to nutritionally critical long-chain unsaturated fats.

• Tsinghua’s iGEM project presented a gene-therapy strategy that reprograms somatic cells into regulated insulin-producing cells, aiming to eliminate daily insulin injections for type-1 diabetes patients.

• Wax-moth gut microbes (Galleria mellonella) can digest polyethylene, suggesting engineered insects or symbionts for plastic-waste bioremediation, complementing traditional PHB-recycling iGEM projects.

• A cloud-generation concept transferred the dimethyl sulfide (DMS) pathway from marine organisms into E. coli, proposing bacteria-made cloud-condensation nuclei as a synthetic biology climate-intervention tool.

• Participants highlighted the tension between open-source biohacking and restricted academic publishing, noting that most relevant literature remains paywalled despite open-notebook efforts such as the Real Vegan Cheese wiki and Counter Culture Labs file server.