THE VIDEO SHELF · home biotechnology
I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
The Thought Emporium shows how they engineered a yeast strain to produce real spider silk, after more than two years of lab work and many failures. The video explains the genetic engineering process behind it.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it as proof that cutting-edge biotech is becoming accessible to home labs, much like computing in the 1980s.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The Thought Emporium
- Topic
- home biotechnology
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I watched this cool youtube video by Thought Emporium where he makes custom spider silk: [VIDEO] Just seems like he reads the manufacturer's instructions!
TheJoeMan on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 VaccineWith a germ you can kill a few million people - [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] If you want to see someone do cool stuff with the above: [LINK] [VIDEO]
jcims on Hacker News · 2020-12
In Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago
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