- Open-source lab hardware: A link to the Appropedia page “Building research equipment with free, open-source hardware” was shared; it lists examples of DIY scientific tools, including an incomplete open-source Raman spectrometer that still needs substantial development.

- 3-D-printed bone scaffolds: CaptHindsight posted two papers showing that coating polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffolds with curcumin (turmeric extract) increases bone growth by up to 45 %, and discussed controlled-release formulations using PCL, PEG, and PLGA polymers for in-vitro and in-vivo bone regeneration.

- “Suspended Manufacture of Biological Structures”: A 2016 Advanced Materials paper was highlighted that describes a new additive-manufacturing technique for printing delicate biological constructs in a supporting gel medium.

- Sci-Hub torrents and open-access archiving: kanzure and others discussed the 20-plus-terabyte Sci-Hub torrent archive of scientific papers, the slow seeding speeds, and the desire to obtain a complete local copy; a 29 GB Crossref metadata dump (crossref-works.2018-01-21.json.xz) was also linked as a complementary dataset.

- Neural text style transfer: kanzure shared a Stanford NLP paper, “Delete, Retrieve, Generate,” presenting a simple method for sentiment or style transfer in text using neural networks.