- A pre-print on biorxiv describes parallel visual-information pathways in mouse thalamus, offering new circuit-level insight for BCI or sensory-substitution designs.  
- Hetzner introduced a dedicated-storage server line (10 × 10 TB for €170 / month), highlighted as unusually cheap bulk storage for open-science datasets.  
- Discussion centered on in-vitro gametogenesis: recent papers show human metaphase-II oocytes grown from unilaminar follicles and functional haploid spermatids from germline stem cells, with links to OvaScience publications and Evelyn Telfer’s video lecture.  
- The Orwig lab’s testicular tissue-culture work was noted as a parallel effort aimed at preserving fertility for pediatric-cancer patients post-chemotherapy.  
- DIYHPlusWiki was updated with a new page on “essential fructosuria,” expanding the catalog of candidate genetic modifications.  
- Links to open-source cryptographic tools were shared: a Java Shamir-secret-sharing implementation and a Go Sparse-Merkle-tree library, relevant for privacy-preserving health or genomic data systems.  
- Blockstream’s “Pay-to-Endpoint” proposal was circulated as a method to improve transaction privacy in Bitcoin, with potential applications for discreet health-service payments.  
- U.S. Army Human Research Protection Office regulations (32 CFR 219) and a grants.gov fertility-research opportunity were posted, indicating interest in compliant human-subject research funding.  
- Resolve.org’s 2018 state-by-state pro-infertility legislation tracker was provided as a resource for policy advocacy around assisted-reproduction access.