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I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast

The Thought Emporium · demo · Watch on YouTube

Biology & biotechnologyMaterials science

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as proof that cutting-edge biotech is becoming accessible to home labs, much like computing in the 1980s.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I watched this cool youtube video by Thought Emporium where he makes custom spider silk”

    Making custom spider silk with engineered yeast.

    TheJoeMan, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine”

  2. “If you want to see someone do cool stuff with the above”

    Cool home biotech work.

    jcims, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: spider silk, genetic engineering, yeast, diy biology, synthetic biology

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