Biology & biotechnology Videos Recommended on Hacker News (82)
Biology & biotechnology is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 82 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2013 and 2026 — 241 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Biology and biotech: cells, molecular biology, synthetic biology, mycology and fungi, microbiology, bioengineering, DIY biotech, protein folding, lab work, biochemistry.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018: “I highly recommend this video from Levin. It was my introduction to his work.” — an HN commenter, 2021.
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11 mo on HNWhat Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
9 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1035 - Paul Stamets
8 mo on HNDEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome
8 mo on HNDNA animation (2002-2014) by Drew Berry and Etsuko Uno wehi.tv #ScienceArt
7 mo on HNI Genetically Engineered *MYSELF* to Fix Lactose Intolerance
7 mo on HNmRNA Translation (Advanced)
7 mo on HNAnimations of unseeable biology | Drew Berry | TED
7 mo on HNMichael Levin: The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life | TED
5 mo on HNThe Inner Life of the Cell Animation
5 mo on HNThe Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
6 mo on HNThe Roots of Your Profits - Dr Elaine Ingham, Soil Microbiologist, Founder of Soil Foodweb Inc
6 mo on HNEvo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science
4 mo on HN6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets | TED
5 mo on HN"We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman (2011)
5 mo on HNElectron transport chain
3 mo on HNMatt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer
4 mo on HNGeoffrey West on COMPLEXITY
4 mo on HNThe Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage
3 mo on HNMichael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research
3 mo on HNWhere Do Trees Get Their Mass?
3 mo on HNNanobot (Havana Parody) | A Capella Science ft. Dorothy Andrusiak
3 mo on HNMichael Levin: Anatomical decision-making by cellular collectives
3 mo on HNLee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
3 mo on HNRon Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1: Molecular Motor Proteins
3 mo on HNHomochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
3 mo on HNCordyceps: attack of the killer fungi - Planet Earth Attenborough BBC wildlife
3 mo on HNHow The Immune System ACTUALLY Works – IMMUNE
3 mo on HNKinesin protein walking on microtubule
3 mo on HNYour Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago
3 mo on HNThe Immune System Explained I – Bacteria Infection
2 mo on HNWhy Women Are Stripey
2 mo on HNMatter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin
2 mo on HNYou Are Immune Against Every Disease
2 mo on HNThe Scariest Episode Yet - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 10/30/18
2 mo on HNAlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
2 mo on HN