• A new patent, US20210130849A1, titled “Human gene correction,” was circulated, along with a related news article from biohackinfo.com covering Mitalipov & Egli’s CRISPR gene-editing work.  
• Participants debated the feasibility of “ex-utero” mammalian gestation, citing historical mouse experiments in which embryos implanted in ectopic sites (brain, testis, eye) grew aggressively, whereas normal endometrial implantation was surprisingly the most difficult—though the original reference could not be located.  
• Vermont’s legislature passed a bill (PR0005) that was shared in PDF form, prompting tongue-in-cheek remarks about “firing up the cloning vats.”  
• The perennial question of self-replicating machinery resurfaced: lsneff asked whether general-purpose machines that can make other machines remain an unsolved problem; maaku clarified that while we already build machines that manufacture machines, autonomous design and open-ended construction of unknown hardware designs are still blocked by AI software limits and robotics constraints.  
• A brief philosophical aside linked Greek mythology (Athena’s birth from Zeus’s head) to the notion of artificial intelligence emerging fully formed, underscoring the channel’s habit of blending classical references with transhumanist speculation.