- Vitaprint open-source bioprinter repositories were shared: https://github.com/symbiolab.  
- A 2009 paper on “Evolving a polymerase for hydrophobic base analogues” was highlighted as relevant to non-natural nucleic-acid chemistry: http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2762193/.  
- MIRI’s call for a “living library” human to track every new machine-learning result sparked debate; kanzure argued MIRI should focus on work that “actually matters for building AGI” and posted evidence that his own literature archive is already widely cited.  
- A pre-print modeling study warned that current CRISPR gene drives are “likely to be highly invasive in wild populations”; participants noted invasiveness is the intended feature but still debated ecological risk: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/16/219022.  
- Discussion of space-mining economics questioned how revenue could be generated while “de-risking” missions; launch insurance, orbital delivery costs, and opportunity-cost comparisons with terrestrial investments were raised as unsolved variables.  
- nmz787 circulated research on electronically wiring biology: the Mtr extracellular electron-transfer pathway from Shewanella oneidensis, mediator-based electroactivity in Pseudomonas putida, and redox-signalling control of gene expression in E. coli (links to Nature Communications and PMC papers).  
- Practical 3-D visualization needs were aired: archels_ sought help chaining transformation filters in Mayavi/VTK, nmz787 recounted prior struggles with Mayavi/VTK/Paraview for protein-DNA complex rendering, and both weighed Paraview as an alternative.  
- nmz787 solicited ideas for useful projects if a transmission electron microscope (TEM) were acquired.