- DARPA’s new “Biostasis” program aims to extend the “golden hour” after traumatic injury by slowing biological time, explicitly framed as a biochemical/military-medicine initiative.  
- MIT’s Boyden Lab released “Archon1,” a high-performance fluorescent voltage indicator created with a robotic, microscopy-guided directed-evolution platform that screens hundreds of thousands of mammalian-cell variants for brightness and membrane localization; paper in Nature Chemical Biology.  
- A user-editable fluorescent-protein database, FPbase.org, was announced for rapid sharing and comparison of FP properties.  
- A complete 1,600-neuron reconstruction of one hemisphere of the Drosophila larval brain from serial-section electron microscopy was highlighted, emphasizing community-driven manual tracing.  
- Discussion of advanced nanolithography techniques included multi-beam e-beam direct-write systems (ASML 64-beam tool), Tera-print’s massively parallel approach, and “beam-pen lithography” that uses UV-transparent pyramid tips for sub-100 nm photolithography without conventional masks.  
- Historical note: Edward Hutchinson Synge is credited with an early 1928 conceptual precursor to apertureless near-field optical lithography in correspondence with Einstein.