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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.

3 mo on HN

Kinesin protein walking on microtubule

em2134x
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HN

Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HN

The Immune System Explained I – Bacteria Infection

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2015–2021
2 mo on HN

Why Women Are Stripey

Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2015–2026
2 mo on HN

Matter to Mind:Bioelectricity, Body Intelligence, Future of Regenerative Medicine- Dr. Michael Levin

Harvard Extension Student Psychological Club
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN

You Are Immune Against Every Disease

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

The Scariest Episode Yet - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 10/30/18

Adam Savage’s Tested
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done

Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HN

Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space

Journey to the Microcosmos
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland

Foresight Institute
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
2 HN recommender · 2017–2020
2 mo on HN

The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World

Veritasium
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN

What is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin

TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

Cody's Algae Panel

Cody'sLab
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

The Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)

PBS Space Time
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
2 mo on HN

What Is the RNA World Hypothesis?

Stated Clearly
2 HN recommender · 2016–2021
2 mo on HN

The man who faked human cloning

BobbyBroccoli
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HN

Gay Frogs: A Deep Dive

Oki's Weird Stories
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325

Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HN

How the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane

The Royal Institution
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HN

Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse

Harvard Online
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HN

Joe Rogan Experience #1385 - Paul Stamets

PowerfulJRE
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
1 mo on HN

Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations

NC State
1 HN recommend · 2014–2025
1 mo on HN

I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast

The Thought Emporium
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?

PBS Space Time
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

Simple Bacteria Genetic Engineering

The Thought Emporium
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

Ancient Life as Old as the Universe

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HN

White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria

Adam Ryman
1 HN recommend · 2013–2021
1 mo on HN

Mike Levin - Live ALife 2020 Keynote - Robot Cancer

ALife 2020 Conference
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

DMTx Breakthrough Panel Moderated By Graham Hancock, Dr. Andrew Gallimore & Dr. Rick Strassman

Noonautics
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HN

Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

Half as Interesting
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

Genetic Engineering and Diseases – Gene Drive & Malaria

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2016–2025
1 mo on HN

DNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176

SmarterEveryDay
1 HN recommend · 2018–2019
1 mo on HN

Your Body's Molecular Machines

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

21. Chaos and Reductionism

Stanford
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

Overview of Illumina Sequencing by Synthesis Workflow | Standard SBS chemistry

Illumina
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019