• DARPA’s upcoming “Biostasis” proposer-day webcast (20 March 2018, 11:45 am ET) was announced; the program aims at metabolic or cellular “pause” technologies for trauma and space applications.  
• Two key papers were highlighted showing that heavy immunosuppression (non-depleting CD4 antibody + cyclosporine or intensive pharma protocols) enables repeated AAV or adenoviral gene transfer in primates, reopening the possibility of adult re-dosing for gene therapy.  
• Discussion followed on practical implementation: a sealed, HEPA-filtered “bubble” environment plus 12-week immunosuppression could let individuals receive multiple, sequential gene-therapy treatments despite anti-capsid immunity.  
• Open questions were raised about developmental windows—e.g., whether cognitive-enhancing alleles like the KIBRA working-memory variant must be present from birth or can still benefit adults—and how to test this in animals using inducible promoters.  
• srk introduced DistRap (https://distrap.org/), an open-hardware motion-control stack written in Haskell that uses CAN-bus today and may migrate to EtherCAT; target users are DIY CNC, 3-D-printer, and robot-arm builders dissatisfied with current RepRap controllers.  
• kanzure shared the DIYbio Sphere project index (http://sphere.diybio.org/projects/diybiosphere/) and the global DIYbio lab map (https://diybio.org/local/) as resources for distributed biohacking spaces.  
• A lightweight browser game, “Seedship,” was circulated (https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/) as a narrative simulation of AI-guided interstellar colonization decision-making.