- **GP-write pilot project call**: The channel circulated an open invitation to submit abstracts for additional GP-write pilot projects by end-of-April 2017; submissions were directed to info@engineeringbiologycenter.org and lisa@novangroup.com.  
- **Neuro-tech & connectomics links**: Multiple tweets and articles were shared, including the first whole-mouse-brain serial-section EM dataset to be unveiled in Berlin, Kernel’s stated goal to “read and write the underlying functions of the human brain,” and the complete neural-activity map of freely moving Hydra published in *Current Biology*.  
- **Memory-enhancement genetics**: A 2014 review paper on genes and signaling pathways that enhance memory in mutant mice (focusing on RGS14-like mechanisms) was highlighted, with discussion on whether such enhancements might create distracting “frame-buffer” persistence akin to Windows 95 mouse trails.  
- **Gene-therapy milestone**: Coverage of a *Nature Biotechnology* paper demonstrating restoration of auditory and vestibular function in a mouse model of Usher syndrome type 1c via gene therapy.  
- **Asteroid-mining economics**: Goldman Sachs’ bullish note on space-mining economics was debated; the Caltech feasibility report (http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/asteroid_final_report.pdf) was surfaced as the underlying technical source.  
- **IP controversy in HGP-write**: Participants expressed alarm that MPEG-LA—traditionally an audio/video patent pool—was tasked with the intellectual-property framework for the Human Genome Project-write initiative.  
- **Neuroanatomy methodology gripe**: A lament that neonatal cortical surface reconstruction efforts rely heavily on MRI rather than optical or electron-microscopy neuroanatomy, viewed as a missed opportunity for higher-resolution structural data.