I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
The Thought Emporium · 2 HN recommendations
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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 recommends it: HN commenters cite it as proof that cutting-edge biotech is becoming accessible to home labs, much like computing in the 1980s.
“advanced cutting-edge biotech is getting to be as accessible as computing was getting in the 80s” Read on HN ↗