- Fasano’s new paper (PMC7185031) reports that a gluten-free diet normalizes immune markers and kynurenic-acid-pathway metabolites in schizophrenia patients who are anti-gliadin-positive, offering the first rigorous clinical evidence linking gluten, neuro-inflammation, and psychosis.  
- A browser-based port of OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text (https://whisper.ggerganov.com/) now runs in real time using WebAssembly/SIMD, truncating audio to 120-second chunks for local inference.  
- Astera Institute (Jed McCaleb) has launched a molecular-CAD program led by Eric Drexler and Adam Marblestone, validating lsneff’s 2021 “atomcad” concept and linking to the channel’s own wiki for background.  
- kanzure claims to have “solved DNA synthesis” after 14 years of iteration; details are not yet public but are expected to drop soon.  
- Max More has left Alcor and joined Biostasis Technologies as Director of Communications, marking a notable leadership shift in the cryonics community.  
- SpaceX conducted a full wet-dress rehearsal for Starship (livestream: https://youtu.be/F9zI9o3cx48), loading >4,000 t of propellant without incident.  
- Drexler’s recent talk “The Surprising Productivity of Nano-Machinery” (https://youtu.be/HjgjtAk-lws) summarizes the Molecular Systems Engineering Project’s roadmap for scalable atomically precise manufacturing.  
- Participants debated why commercial gecko-tape still relies on polymer molding instead of metal or glass etching; consensus is that current work is research-scale and CNC-micromachining suffices for prototypes.