- The crowdfunding page for the “Demonpore 64” open-source nanopore DNA-sequencing device has disappeared, prompting discussion that the project may need clearer marketing around its core concept of “molecular reality.”  
- Chemical.ai, a platform for AI-driven retrosynthetic route discovery, recently closed a $14 million Series B round and was linked to a new ChemRxiv preprint describing “theoretical chemical reaction database construction based on quantum-chemistry-aided retrosynthetic analysis.”  
- A LinkedIn profile for He Jiankui—the Chinese biophysicist who created the first CRISPR-edited human babies—was circulated, keeping the community’s attention on the evolving regulatory and ethical landscape of germline editing.