- Robert Freitas’ personal website (rfreitas.com) has remained unchanged for roughly two decades, serving as a time-capsule of early 2000s transhumanist nanomedicine content.  
- A community-maintained “genetic modifications” wiki page (http://diyhpl.us/wiki/genetic-modifications/) catalogs known human alleles and edits thought to confer benefits such as improved working memory (e.g., WWC1 variants).  
- Recent press coverage (GenomeWeb) reports that embryo selection using polygenic risk scores is now commercially available, although clinical utility remains unproven.  
- DNA Script closed a $200 M second tranche of Series C funding and plans to launch an enzymatic DNA synthesis platform in 2022, potentially accelerating benchtop gene synthesis workflows.  
- Participants debated open-source licensing choices for bio-hardware/software projects; Apache 2.0 for code and CERN-OHL-W for hardware designs were settled on as compatible, permissive options.  
- A Hacker News comment thread on “science nerds” sparked criticism that even high-profile neuroscientists ignore low-bar life-extension measures such as cryonics, highlighting ongoing outreach failures by the cryonics community.