• nmz787_ shared a gallery of high-resolution micrographs taken with a scanning microscope, including images of an Intel Xeon die and a human hair, demonstrating DIY electron-microscopy capabilities (http://diyhpl.us/~nmz787/pdf/smi3200/pics.html#micrographs).

• Discussion of “LASER ART” (long-acting slow-effective release antiretroviral therapy) centered on whether its apparent success in preventing HIV rebound is due to complete removal of integrated proviral DNA or merely to suppression below a critical replication threshold.

• Participants debated the feasibility of excising retroviral DNA from host genomes; fenn noted that cutting proviral inserts risks disrupting oncogenes and suggested coupling excision with a conditional self-destruct signal for any cell still harboring viral sequences.

• kanzure linked the open-access paper “Encoding information in synthetic metabolomes” (PLOS ONE, 2019), which proposes using combinatorial mixtures of small molecules as a data-storage medium, an approach relevant to molecular bar-coding and biological computing.

• A brief aside on synthetic meat research included a YouTube video on lab-grown meat and tongue-in-cheek memetic images, reflecting ongoing community interest in cellular agriculture and future food technologies.