- Maria Konovalenko’s “Transhumanism Strategy” post circulated, arguing that monetizing radical life-extension research overcomplicates the field and urging more direct action.  
- Rose’s Law (quantum-computing analogue to Moore’s Law) was highlighted via a Steve Jurvetson Flickr chart, prompting jokes that quantum computers are now “nearly faster than the universe.”  
- Discussion of naturally occurring fullerene-like structures in biology: no confirmed C60 compounds were known, but vesicles, spores, and virus capsids can mimic the geometry; forest-fire decomposers were speculated as possible natural users.  
- A KEGG database entry for an “anti-fullerene antibody” (PDB:1EMT) was surfaced, and the half-meter record for longest carbon-nanotube fibers (ACS Nano 2013) was cited, with consensus that scalable, super-long CNT production remains elusive.  
- Transcriptic’s $8.5 M Series A funding and new robotic lab equipment (~$800 k) were announced; the channel praised the company’s new “resource reservations” feature that lets external researchers book reagents and instruments via API.  
- A new research center for large-animal perfusion studies is being set up in a donated warehouse in Bucharest, positioning the city as a potential hub for open transhumanist biology work.  
- PacBio RS-II long-read sequencing: an operator reports obtaining 500 kb contiguous reads, prompting debate over whether these are true single-molecule reads and how their accuracy compares to Illumina.  
- “Ultrasound-activated steroids” (microbubble-mediated drug delivery) were highlighted as a promising but still-undocumented technique; participants considered adding it to the community wiki.