- A new pre-print reports successful reversal of age- and injury-related vision loss in mice using Tet-dependent epigenetic reprogramming, suggesting that transient expression of Yamanaka factors can reset retinal ganglion cells to a youthful epigenetic state (bioRxiv 710210v1).  
- The channel highlighted two recent philosophy-of-bioenhancement papers: “The Epistemology of Cognitive Enhancement” (PhilArchive) explicitly cites the DIY transhumanist site diyhpl.us, while “Biomedical Enhancements as Justice” (Wiley) frames enhancement as a matter of distributive justice.  
- George Church’s latest patent (US 2019/0258909) covers methods for encoding digital information into nucleic acid polymers, extending his lab’s work on DNA data storage with novel encoding and retrieval schemes.