- The Glowing Plant Kickstarter project was officially halted; participants criticized it as non-functional hype that discredited open-source bioengineering efforts.  
- A novel “sleep deprivation absence syndrome” (tentatively nicknamed “Weirdly Wakeful Wizard Syndrome” or WWWS) was discussed—two individuals appear to tolerate extreme sleep loss without impairment; whole-genome sequencing is planned and Perlara.com was suggested as a potential collaborator for rare-disease-style investigation.  
- Multiple longevity-linked loci were highlighted: copy-number variants in ZNF704 and ZNF562, cerebellar epigenetic-age SNPs near MLST8 and DHX57, and the mitochondrial import gene TOMM40.  
- A 2009 paper on a RIMS1 mutation causing cone-rod dystrophy but also conferring cognitive enhancement was circulated, prompting debate over heterozygote advantage and the risk that engineered single-copy IQ boosters could create reproductive incompatibilities.  
- George Church’s inclusion in Time’s 2017 “100 Most Influential People” list was noted, alongside a transcript of his HGP-Write talk describing programmable recombinase-mediated DNA synthesis using recCas9.  
- DNA Fountain—a Science paper demonstrating dense data storage in DNA using fountain codes adapted from video streaming—was reviewed; participants concluded the encoding advance is less critical than the still-costly synthesis bottleneck.  
- Lucid-dream motor-training studies were shared, showing that REM-sleep gamma-band tACS at 40 Hz can reliably induce lucidity and that dream-rehearsal improves real-world darts performance; participants sought SNPs associated with dream recall and lucidity.  
- Radiation-resistance gene candidates and optogenetic control of methyltransferases were added to the DIYH+ wiki’s growing catalog of potential human genetic modifications.