- Apollo 11 mission audio and telemetry have been re-released as an interactive real-time experience at https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/.

- Raytheon authors a new review on “Progress and prospects for a nucleic acid screening test set” (DOI: 10.1089/apb.2023.0033), outlining emerging multiplexed pathogen-detection technologies.

- The Gene Synthesis Consortium launches a public site (https://genesynthesisconsortium.org/) to coordinate industry standards for DNA-sequence screening and biosecurity.

- Discussion explores minimal specs for a sub-dermal “tattoo-like” oxygenator: MOFs for selective O₂ capture/release, ATP-powered or blue-light-triggered desorption, and full biocompatibility without high-temperature regeneration.

- Meta’s Llama 3.1 family (8 B, 70 B, 405 B) becomes available; official gated downloads on Hugging Face plus rapidly appearing quantized community versions (GGUF, FP8) for local and vLLM deployment.

- Mistral releases “Mistral Large 2407,” adding another high-performance open-weights LLM to the day’s model drop.

- TreeCo (https://tree-co.com/) is highlighted as a new startup focused on CRISPR-based genetic engineering of trees for carbon capture and forestry applications.

- Coverage notes that He Jiankui, creator of the first CRISPR babies, has relocated to a Chinese medical-tourism hub to continue reproductive-genetics research (Stat News, 24 Jul 2024).

- A Wikipedia page on “psychoplastogens” is circulated, summarizing evidence that diverse compounds converge on TrkB and mTOR signaling to promote neural plasticity.

- Channel members query the effectiveness and necessity of DNA-synthesis screening lists, asking how enforcement outcomes are measured or publicized.