- CaptHindsight shared a $10 microchip hack that augments 2-D ultrasound machines with an accelerometer and software to produce low-cost 3-D volumetric imaging; a prototype is described in the paper “Low-cost Volumetric Ultrasound by Augmentation of 2D Systems” (SAGE Journals).  
- NIH Common Fund launched a new Somatic Cell Genome Editing program that will fund and openly distribute “quality tools” for safe, effective in-patient genome editing, with active funding opportunities listed on their site.  
- kanzure floated the provocative idea of a mail-order DMD (Duchenne muscular dystrophy) gene-editing kit delivered by intramuscular injection, noting that affected parents are already near revolt against FDA timelines.  
- Discussion on brain death asked why cardiac arrest is treated with electric shocks while “shocking” the brain is not attempted; andytoshi argued that coordinated heart activity can be restarted by a single global stimulus, whereas manually orchestrating distributed neural activity is likely impossible.  
- Links to forward-looking technical content were posted, including a YouTube talk on “Future Technological Directions in Bitcoin,” a Schnorr multisignature aggregation transcript, and the Keystone Symposia program on “Precision Genome Editing with Programmable Nucleases.”