• A 2015 study on transient mRNA delivery of the telomerase gene TERT was highlighted as a practical route to rapid, reversible telomere extension in human cells without permanent genetic modification (PMC4415018).

• Tensil.ai’s low-cost, fuse-programmable ASICs aimed at drone-based machine-learning workloads were debated; critics noted they may offer neither the performance of a true ASIC nor the reconfigurability of an FPGA.

• Arpeggio Biosciences’ blood-RNA-sequencing platform was framed as a “debugger for biology,” enabling real-time pharmacodynamic monitoring and compared to in-vivo cellular recording schemes that use secreted DNA as a read-out.

• Kern Systems (Henry Lee group) was cited for its work on high-density DNA data storage, positioning synthetic DNA as a long-term archival medium.

• GiveLegacy.com’s mail-in sperm-banking service was shared as an example of consumer-grade reproductive bio-banking logistics.

• A newly disclosed Bluetooth “KNOB” attack allows remote downgrade of encryption key entropy to a single byte, prompting concern that Bluetooth-based Bitcoin hardware wallets and other 2FA devices may be vulnerable to real-time brute-force.

• GitHub’s same-day announcement of WebAuthn support for hardware security keys was noted as a timely countermeasure against authentication-side-channel threats.

• The 20 canonical amino acids were argued to be evolutionarily “optimal” for minimizing mutation-error propagation, based on a cited anthropology-library paper (Freed & Hurst, Sci. Am.).

• Secure multi-party computation (MPC) was introduced via an IACR e-print titled “From Keys to Databases,” outlining real-world applications beyond theoretical cryptography.

• Maurice Herlihy’s lecture “Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective” was recommended, linking his Gödel-Prize-winning work on the topological structure of asynchronous computation to broader hypercomputation and blockchain-consensus theory.