- Othram, a forensic-genomics startup, raised $4 million to scale its platform that uses next-generation sequencing to identify human remains and solve cold cases.  
- A Nature Communications paper shows that non-coding double-stranded RNA triggers TLR3 signaling, inducing retinoic-acid synthesis and robust hair-follicle regeneration in mice, pointing to a possible topical therapy for hair loss.  
- A new PNAS article describes a microfluidic chip that performs rapid protein isolation and on-grid sample prep for high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy, cutting the time from cell lysis to imaging to minutes.  
- The diyhpluswiki added transcripts of Jeremy Rubin’s 2018 talk on Bitcoin Core development workflow and Ron Rivest’s 2019 commentary on the LCS35 cryptographic timelock puzzle, expanding open documentation of decentralized-systems research.  
- Cryptography links shared include an IACR preprint on faster subgroup-curve checks for the BLS12-381 pairing-friendly curve, the KZen “class-groups” library for threshold cryptography, a 2006 paper on the theoretical limits of point-function obfuscation, and a Science & Global Security article proposing an escrow protocol for treaty verification using cryptographic time-locks.