I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 1 month, 2020–2022.
demo · evergreen
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.
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”
5 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
I watched this cool youtube video by Thought Emporium where he makes custom spider silk: ▶ this video Just seems like he reads the manufacturer's instructions!
in “Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine” · View on HN
With 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] ▶ this video
in “Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago” · View on HN
I don’t think anyone physically could horde it for even as long as 20 years no matter how hard they tried. Tech has a way of diffusing rapidly — things that start off only affordable by the richest yuppies of Wall Street and London can be superseded by street-wares in Nairobi, and this is not limited to just computers and phones, for example one of the YouTube channels I follow genetically engineered yeast to produce spider silk: ▶ this video
in “Turning back the clock: Human skin cells de-aged by 30 years in trial” · View on HN
That's the easy part (literally possible in a home laboratory: ▶ this video ), the encapsulant and microfluidics for getting the mRNA into it seems to be the hard part.
in “Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property” · View on HN
The point of capitalism is to align the interests of those with no scruples with the interests of everyone else. How well it does this and what else might do better is a matter for frequent — and loud — debate, but it is certainly better aligned than the feudal setup which preceded it. Anyway, here is a link to some open-sourced generically engineered spider-silk producing yeast, to demonstrate that advanced cutting-edge biotech is getting to be as accessible as computing was getting in the 80s: ▶ this video
in “Science of Aging Is Focus of New Bakar Research Institute” · View on HN