- Stanford bioengineering professor Stephen Quake has been officially cleared of any wrongdoing in his interactions with He Jiankui, the scientist behind the CRISPR-babies controversy, according to a follow-up New York Times report cited by Nature News.  
- A NIST Threshold Cryptography Workshop 2019 livestream (day 2) was shared, indicating ongoing federal interest in cryptographic schemes that distribute trust across multiple parties—relevant to secure multi-party computation in open-source bioinformatics pipelines.  
- A YouTube video titled “The end of crypto” was circulated, suggesting discussion or speculation about systemic vulnerabilities or regulatory threats to current cryptographic infrastructure, though no detailed commentary was logged.