• A new Nature article, “Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?” (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08300-4), was shared as a key reference on the prospect of making CRISPR-based edits that are not only therapeutic for an individual but also heritable across generations.

• A tweet (https://x.com/arithmoquine/status/1877797267001708826) highlighted recent excitement around using UMAP dimensionality reduction on neuronal spike-train data to recover the latent topology of an animal’s mental map of physical space, suggesting that low-dimensional embeddings can reveal how the brain encodes spatial memory.

• Discussion referenced prior C. elegans memory-recovery experiments, implying that the UMAP result may be an extension or validation of earlier prize-winning work that reconstructed learned spatial representations from worm neural recordings.