- A Stanford-affiliated “bootleg” COVID-19 testing lab is reportedly running tests for ~50 people, highlighting grassroots biohacking efforts during the pandemic.  
- Discussion of open-source ventilator designs referenced the GitHub repo jcl5m1/ventilator as a rapidly shared hardware response.  
- Participants debated why more grad-students and bio-hackers aren’t self-testing: cost of reagents and lack of free Taq-plasmid E. coli were cited as key barriers.  
- A Wikimedia hydroxychloroquine synthesis diagram (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydroxychloroquine_synthesis.svg) was circulated as a candidate for “kitchen-level” drug production.  
- Harvard labs were shut down and donating consumables to hospitals; channel members criticized institutional mask-disposal policies and suggested microwave steam-bag decontamination (PLOS ONE study linked).  
- UV-C LED procurement for wearable PPE was frustrated by distributors who went silent or marked parts “no longer manufactured” after hearing detailed disinfection proposals.  
- Free-floating mitochondria in blood (ScienceMag blog) and Qihan Bio’s extensively gene-edited pigs for xenotransplantation (expecting human trials within 5 years) were flagged as emerging biomedical findings.  
- ACE2-mesenchymal-stem-cell transplantation for COVID-19 was questioned as overkill; a new pre-print (bioRxiv 2020.03.14.988345) identified CD147 as an alternative SARS-CoV-2 entry receptor.  
- Brexit was framed as a potential catalyst for relaxed UK GMO/CRISPR regulation, per a Genetic Literacy Project op-ed.  
- Long-term visions included seamless computation offloading via WebAssembly, distributed “serverless” operating systems, and laser-based LiFi links to cut VR latency—echoing 1980s Amoeba OS research.