• Ambrosia’s pay-to-participate “young-blood” trial was noted: 70 subjects have each paid $8,000 to receive young-plasma infusions as part of an ongoing study.  
• A Cell paper on “Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields” (Boyden et al.) was highlighted; it describes using two high-frequency (2 kHz and 2.01 kHz) electrode pairs whose interference creates a 10 Hz beat pattern deep in the brain without surface activation.  
• Discussion of the paper’s spatial resolution focused on supplementary Figure S4 and Table S2, with participants debating whether the c-fos labeling data actually demonstrate significant localized stimulation or merely long-term changes.  
• nmz787_i reported practical advice from an electron-beam service engineer: actual beam lifetime can be ~2× the manufacturer’s spec, and users should run the source until performance (beam current or image noise) visibly degrades.  
• A workflow problem involving thousands of mangled sequence/sample names was raised; nmz787_i is experimenting with BioPython aligners and the fuzzywuzzy string-matching library to reconstruct original identifiers when upstream metadata fixes are impossible.  
• kanzure shared a link to the “Discreet Log Contracts” paper (adiabat.github.io/dlc.pdf), outlining a Bitcoin-compatible protocol for privacy-preserving, oracle-settled smart contracts.