- Tim May, author of the Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement, was reported to have died.  
- A Nature paper titled “Genome editing reveals a role for OCT4 in human embryogenesis” (doi:10.1038/nature24033) was shared as a key CRISPR study on early human development.  
- Discussion of Jiankui He’s gene-edited babies noted that the work has been universally condemned by his university, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese government; participants also observed that this reaction appears separate from China’s new “social” punishments for scientific misconduct.  
- A Wall Street Journal article on unintended deformities in CRISPR-edited animals was circulated, highlighting lambs whose MSTN edits caused oversized fetuses requiring C-section births and goats engineered for ~20 % longer cashmere via FGF5 disruption.  
- A French high-school student’s pre-print (OSF: yj8xw) translating portions of the Bible and Koran into protein sequences, packaging them into rAAV and cyclic peptides, and self-injecting them into his thighs was flagged as an extreme example of biohacker sensationalism.