- A new pre-print presents the first complete adult fly connectome that integrates both the brain and the ventral nerve cord, offering an unprecedented whole-nervous-system wiring diagram for Drosophila.  
- Nature published a low-cost, open-source coaxial 3-D extrusion bioprinter that retrofits an off-the-shelf non-bioprinter, making tissue-engineering hardware more accessible to DIY labs.  
- The UCLA 2P Miniscope—an open-source miniature two-photon microscope—was released with full build files on GitHub; it records calcium dynamics from deep hippocampal neurons and dendrites in freely moving animals with ~4× higher light collection than fiber-bundle systems.  
- Discussion of a PMC paper on cancer and atherosclerosis noted that while the work mapped oxidative-stress and inflammation pathways well, it failed to perform root-cause analysis of those pathways, highlighting a gap between mechanistic insight and therapeutic translation.  
- A Substack post on “Venture Capital for Life Scientists” was circulated as a primer for biotech founders navigating early-stage funding.  
- Quanta Magazine was recommended as a go-to source for staying current on cutting-edge science and technology developments.