- A paper on “golgin coiled-coil proteins” was shared, detailing how these structural proteins capture different classes of transport vesicles through specific N-terminal motifs, offering insight into intracellular trafficking mechanisms (https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-016-0345-3).  
- A short video titled “Mapping the cell’s internal postal code” was linked to illustrate how molecular addressing systems guide cargo within cells (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKgE7oyeKUQ).  
- Research on stickleback fish showed that a single splice-site change in the MSX2A gene drives rapid morphological evolution of dorsal spines, highlighting how small genetic edits can yield large phenotypic shifts (https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0456-5).  
- Coverage of an upcoming clinical trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy explained the use of “micro-dystrophin” constructs—compressed versions of the 2.4-Mb dystrophin gene that fit inside AAV vectors—to enable the first systemic gene-replacement attempts in boys (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608575/doctors-plan-bold-test-of-gene-therapy-on-boys-with-muscular-dystrophy/).  
- A Nature Communications paper introduced de-novo-designed antimicrobial peptide capsids that self-assemble into 20-nm virus-like shells; these structures land on bacterial membranes and within seconds convert into expanding pores that lyse cells, offering a non-antibiotic route to combat resistant pathogens (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02475-3).  
- The diyhpluswiki repository was updated with a transcript of Rusty Russell’s talk on future Bitcoin technologies, including discussion of Bulletproofs and other privacy or scaling proposals (http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/transcripts/2018-01-24-rusty-russell-future-bitcoin-tech-directions/).  
- A link to the “Global Open Science Hardware Roadmap” was circulated, outlining community priorities and design patterns for open-source scientific instrumentation (http://openhardware.science/global-open-science-hardware-roadmap).