Engineering yeast to produce real spider silk
The Thought Emporium · Demo · 33 min · 2020 · YouTube title: I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
Why it's here
HN commenters cite it as proof that cutting-edge biotech is becoming accessible to home labs, much like computing in the 1980s.
What it covers
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.