- DNA-encoded libraries are becoming a permanent fixture in drug discovery, as argued in a Science Magazine “In the Pipeline” post that kanzure shared.  
- A newly reported “i-motif” four-stranded DNA structure found inside living human cells was highlighted by archels, potentially expanding the toolkit for synthetic biology and nanotechnology.  
- Discussion of telomerase engineering explored whether its RNA-protein reverse-transcriptase architecture could be repurposed to synthesize arbitrary DNA sequences, with kanzure noting that terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) is the more usual route for such tasks.  
- Lightning-dev mailing-list post “Scriptless Scripts with ECDSA” and its attached PDF were circulated, describing a cryptographic technique to embed smart-contract logic in Bitcoin’s ECDSA signatures without extra on-chain scripts.  
- Scott Alexander’s “Call for Adversarial Collaborations” on Slate Star Codex was linked as a model for structured, evidence-based debate on controversial scientific and transhumanist topics.  
- A 2012 Atlantic feature, “Hacking the President’s DNA,” was re-circulated, examining how synthetic biology could enable targeted bioweapons and the security implications of ubiquitous genomic data.  
- kanzure’s 2009 dismissal of Bitcoin (“yet another p2p currency piece of crap”) was resurfaced via a tweet, illustrating early skepticism toward now-mainstream decentralized technologies.