- Calyxt has commercialized the first TALEN-edited soybean, deleting a gene to produce oil with reduced trans-fat; ~1,000 acres are already under cultivation in the U.S. Midwest and seed sales to farmers are imminent.  
- Cibus’s SU Canola, engineered with similar non-transgenic gene-editing techniques, is now 5 % of the U.S. canola market (70,000 acres) and is scheduled for Canadian release in 2017.  
- Both companies pursued voluntary FDA consultation, illustrating a regulatory path for gene-edited crops that avoids the “GMO” label while still entering large-scale agriculture.  
- The channel was otherwise quiet; kanzure’s lone substantive post beyond the crop news was a link to the “Science Fiction Interfaces” Tumblr (http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/), a visual reference for speculative UI/UX design.  
- juri_ announced the creation of a new IRC channel, #freesem, though no details about its focus were provided.