- A new open-source “fabscope” project turns an ordinary microscope into a low-cost microfabrication tool, enabling rapid-iteration printing of microstructures for biology; the pre-print and GitHub repo were shared (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.20.639256v1, https://github.com/hinderling/fabscope).

- Recent Max Planck research suggests that the distinctively modern human brain organization—likely tied to advanced cognition—emerged much more recently in evolutionary history than previously thought (https://www.mpg.de/11883269/homo-sapiens-brain-evolution).

- A Nature Biotechnology paper introduced CRISPR–Csm-based single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging, offering a new method for tracking RNA dynamics at high resolution in living cells (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02540-5).