- A new carbon nanostructure reported by Phys.org (https://phys.org/news/2020-04-team-carbon-nanostructure-stronger-diamonds.html) is claimed to be stronger than diamond, potentially opening routes for ultra-strong materials in future implants or structural components.  
- Participants discussed the legal and ethical barriers to automating glutaraldehyde-based tissue preservation, noting that in some jurisdictions such automation could be construed as “assisting suicide” or “failure to provide first aid.”  
- Contract-work pricing norms were debated: 150–200 EUR for 8–10 hours of highly skilled labor involving “cheating” (likely reverse-engineering or security circumvention) was judged to be below market even in low-cost countries like the Czech Republic.  
- Azure cloud reliability came under criticism after repeated SSH-triggered crashes of a virtual machine, highlighting practical pain points for remote bioinformatics or AI workloads.