- A newly discovered bacterial peptide, ε-PαL, can ferry full-length IgG antibodies (~150 kDa) across mammalian cell membranes, offering a direct, non-endocytic route for intracellular protein delivery.  
- Substack post “Notes on EACC Principles and Tenets” (beff.substack.com) was circulated as reading material on emerging accelerationist or effective-altruist-aligned frameworks.  
- Duke iGEM 2022 team presented a high-throughput droplet-microfluidic platform for rapid screening and directed evolution of brain organoids, aiming to scale functional neural tissue engineering.  
- Nature Communications paper (s41467-018-06685-1) on “orthogonal programming of heterogeneous micro-mechano-environments” was highlighted; it details stereolithography techniques that spatially tune oxygen exposure to create gradient stiffness in 3-D printed biomaterials, moving toward consumer-grade multi-property printing.  
- Discussion noted that global weather-prediction models are unevenly optimized, with some regions receiving far less computational and observational investment, impacting climate-risk planning.  
- Monsanto’s web domain (monsanto.com) now redirects to Bayer Crop Science, illustrating the post-acquisition branding shift and the disappearance of legacy Monsanto web assets.