• Gameto announced the first live birth achieved with its “Fertilo” procedure, in which human oocytes are matured outside the body using induced-pluripotent-stem-cell–derived ovarian support cells, eliminating the need for prolonged gonadotropin stimulation (BusinessWire release and accompanying Hum. Reprod. paper).

• Participants debated the biosafety implications of mirror-image (“chiral”) bacteria, asking how a hypothetical lab escape could be contained once the organisms are in the wild, given that standard enzymatic defenses would not recognize them.

• jrayhawk argued that stereochemistry is not a decisive evolutionary advantage: many essential biomolecules (e.g., cobalamin, collagen) already contain fixed stereocenters, and acid-based rather than enzyme-based degradation pathways would still attack mirror cells, limiting their ecological edge.

• A discussion on value aggregation referenced Harsanyi’s theorem and coalition choice functions, noting that any coherent social utility can be expressed as an affine sum of normalized individual utilities weighted by Shapley value, though fenn criticized this as merely enshrining whoever already dominates the economic game.

• docl shared a tutorial video demonstrating how to model and simulate Rotman lens antenna arrays using the open-source electromagnetic solver openEMS together with Blender for visualization.