• The day’s only substantive technical remark was a brief discussion of alternative DNA polymerases for low-resource or open-source biology: engineering Taq polymerase versus testing the DNA polymerase from Mycoplasma, or abandoning chain-reaction formats entirely for other amplification strategies.

• A link to the Lifespan.io crowdfunding page for an NMN (nicotinamide mononucleotide) longevity study was shared, with the observation that the project still had not posted promised updates, highlighting ongoing frustration with crowdfunded longevity research timelines.

• The channel’s public log archives for 1 Jan 2025 were published as compressed tar files at https://gnusha.org/logs/archives/, preserving the day’s IRC history with both raw text and timestamp formats.

• No further papers, repositories, or experimental protocols were introduced; the remainder of the log consisted of routine join/quit traffic and nick changes without additional technical content.