- DARPA’s new “Biostasis” program aims to slow biological time to extend the “golden hour” for trauma treatment; a Proposers Day webinar was scheduled for 20 March 2018.  
- A SoundCloud recording of Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille, and Benedikt Bünz covers SNARKs, STARKs, and Bulletproofs—zero-knowledge proof systems relevant to privacy-preserving crypto and identity.  
- Ethereum research post outlines an O(log n) scaling blockchain architecture that uses data-availability sampling to let “validationless” full nodes participate securely.  
- Discussion of using cortex-less human clones as personalized gene-therapy testbeds; questions raised about epigenetic matching, tissue diffusion limits of lentiviral vectors, and ethical empathy barriers.  
- “Accurate computational design of multipass transmembrane proteins” (Science, 2018) reports de-novo 2- to 4-span membrane proteins up to 860 residues that fold as designed and localize correctly in bacterial and mammalian membranes.  
- GWAS meta-analysis identifies 187 loci and 538 genes linked to intelligence; strongest enrichments implicate neurogenesis, myelination, synaptic machinery, and specific cortical/subcortical expression patterns.  
- TUM/MPQ team achieves zeptosecond (10⁻²¹ s) time resolution in “attosecond correlation dynamics,” opening routes to observe electron motions inside molecules (Nature Physics 2018).  
- “Massively multiplexed tip-based photochemical lithography under continuous capillary flow” (Cell Reports Physical Science) offers high-throughput nanoscale 3-D printing for MEMS/NEMS and bio-device prototyping.  
- Public feud document (Google Drive link) details Ascendance Biomedical vs. Gizmodo/Josiah Zayner coverage of Traywick’s self-experiments, highlighting tensions between biohacking openness and media risk narratives.  
- maaku solicits near-term business cases for early-stage molecular assemblers: what markets exist for micro-scale diamondoid rods, gears, or NEMS components before bulk diamond becomes feasible?