- A Nature Nanotechnology paper (2012) describes a “protein transistor” built from a single antibody molecule flanked by two gold nanoparticles, suggesting single-molecule bio-electronic switches.  
- A follow-up arXiv preprint (1610.08319) reports room-temperature quantum-state readout of individual quantum dots via electrostatic-force detection, pointing toward non-optical qubit measurement techniques.  
- Amaryllis Nucleics launched what they call the first dual-purpose RNA-seq kit for both total RNA and small-RNA libraries, lowering the barrier to transcriptome work in home labs.  
- Catalog DNA (catalogdna.com) was highlighted in an O’Reilly IndieBio 2017 recap as a startup aiming to store digital data in synthetic DNA, illustrating convergence of biotech and archival storage.  
- A programmable molecular machine reported in Nature (2017) achieves stereodivergent synthesis—one nanomechanical device can be re-coded to produce either stereoisomer of a target molecule, demonstrating software-defined chemistry.  
- Discussion of DIY phage therapy: participants asked whether isolating and characterizing bacteriophages is feasible in a home lab setting, noting lack of documented community protocols.  
- Extensive open-access paper collections were shared: diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/diybio/, /bio/, and /ai/machine-learning/ were offered as curated resources for biohackers and ML researchers.  
- A brief note indicated that the protein-transistor work may be linked to a later retraction, reminding the channel to track reproducibility issues in cutting-edge bioelectronics.