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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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 HNDiatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
2 mo on HNShawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland
2 mo on HNGenetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
2 mo on HNThe Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World
2 mo on HNWhat is the best diet for humans? | Eran Segal | TEDxRuppin
2 mo on HNCody's Algae Panel
2 mo on HNThe Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
2 mo on HNWhat Is the RNA World Hypothesis?
2 mo on HNThe man who faked human cloning
2 mo on HNGay Frogs: A Deep Dive
2 mo on HNMichael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325
2 mo on HNHow the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane
2 mo on HNMitochondria: the cell's powerhouse
2 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1385 - Paul Stamets
1 mo on HNAnton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations
1 mo on HNI Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
1 mo on HNWhat If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?
1 mo on HNSimple Bacteria Genetic Engineering
1 mo on HNAncient Life as Old as the Universe
1 mo on HNWhite Blood Cell Chases Bacteria
1 mo on HNMike Levin - Live ALife 2020 Keynote - Robot Cancer
1 mo on HNDMTx Breakthrough Panel Moderated By Graham Hancock, Dr. Andrew Gallimore & Dr. Rick Strassman
1 mo on HNWhy the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
1 mo on HNGenetic Engineering and Diseases – Gene Drive & Malaria
1 mo on HNDNA Testing and Privacy (Behind the scenes at the 23andMe Lab) - Smarter Every Day 176
1 mo on HNYour Body's Molecular Machines
1 mo on HN21. Chaos and Reductionism
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