• The National Academies and the Royal Society have launched an “International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing” that will convene three times in 2019, solicit public evidence, and publish a final report in spring 2020 (nas.edu/gene-editing/international-commission, royalsociety.org/genetic-technologies/international-commission).

• A new eLife “Labs” article introduces the Reproducible Document Stack, a scalable toolchain for creating fully reproducible scholarly articles that embed code, data, and interactive figures (https://elifesciences.org/labs/b521cf4d/reproducible-document-stack-towards-a-scalable-solution-for-reproducible-articles).

• A 2018 review on “Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes” (PMC5898234) was highlighted for its claim that bacterial plasmids and other prokaryotic DNA can evolve into future eukaryotic viruses, implying that synthetic plasmids created today could contribute to long-term viral risk.

• Eugen Leitl, long-time transhumanist and cryonics advocate, was noted as a newly listed—but biographically unspecified—advisor on the CarbonCopies Foundation website, prompting curiosity about his current activities.

• Two YouTube videos were shared: a Harvard lecture by I. Glenn Cohen on “The Second Reproductive Revolution” covering emerging reproductive technologies, and a “Code of the Wild” episode exploring DIY biohacking and genetic engineering outside traditional labs.