- Zeiss Airyscan microscopy was highlighted as a route to “sharper confocal resolution”; links to a product article and a white-paper request page were shared.  
- CRISPR patent-war costs were quantified: Broad/Editas >$15 M, UC/Caribou >$5 M, with participants noting the next battleground will likely be Cpf1 patents.  
- A Nature paper on “Highly stable glassy carbon interfaces for long-term neural stimulation and low-noise brain-activity recording” was circulated as a promising BCI material advance.  
- An EMBO Reports article titled “Organoid technologies meet genome engineering” was posted, summarizing the convergence of 3-D tissue models and CRISPR editing.  
- Discussion of post-mortem data donation arose from a Conversation piece urging people to “donate your data as well as your organs when you die.”  
- A heated debate unfolded over a diybio mailing-list thread (linked Google Groups post) in which an outside NGO (Waag) was accused of attempting to impose a politicized, top-down code of ethics on citizen-science communities.  
- Participants contrasted diybio’s origins—MIT/Cambridge “entrepreneur-communal” culture and anarchist hackerspaces—with newer entrants focused on branding, regulation, and “anti-fascist” framing.  
- Carl Zimmer’s 2009 “Amateurs Are New Fear in Creating Mutant Virus” article was revisited as a persistent source of public misunderstanding that diybio still expends energy rebutting.  
- Practical near-term ideas floated included antibody-producing goats, hybrid minicows, and a selective “DIY village/co-op” for cross-functional bioengineering projects.