- A single-molecule enzymology technique was demonstrated that uses SWCNT-FET nanocircuits to watch Klenow fragment DNA polymerase incorporate deoxynucleotide analogs in real time, providing unprecedented resolution of polymerase kinetics.  
- A Nature paper reported successful full-body epidermal regeneration in a patient with junctional epidermolysis bullosa by transplanting transgenic epidermal stem cells carrying a corrected LAMB3 gene, marking a milestone for in-vivo gene-corrected tissue engineering.  
- Exonics Therapeutics secured $40 M Series A funding to advance CRISPR-based therapies for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, focusing on restoring dystrophin expression in vivo.  
- A new CMOS-compatible silicon neural probe integrates 384 programmable recording channels that can address 960 low-impedance TiN6 sites along a 10 mm shank, enabling high-density neural recording for BCI applications.  
- Electrical stimulation of the fusiform face area (FFA) was shown to evoke “facephenes,” illusory faces perceived on everyday objects, offering direct causal evidence for FFA’s role in facial perception and hallucinations.  
- Cryo-EM imaging at near-atomic resolution was achieved for a small protein displayed on a computationally designed protein scaffold, extending cryo-EM to smaller molecular weights and facilitating structure-guided protein engineering.  
- A preprint proposes replacing backpropagation in deep learning with mixed convex–combinatorial discrete optimization, potentially improving interpretability, efficiency, and hardware compatibility of neural network training.  
- A PLOS Computational Biology paper and related 2010 patent describe engineering DNA polymerase motion to act as a real-time molecular recorder, encoding environmental data directly into DNA sequence for ultra-dense, biological data logging.