Prof. Lorenz’ Private Lab

A making-of of the Original Netflix Series: Biohackers

The script of Biohackers’ episode 3 reads:
“Mia enters a fully equipped, hyper-modern bio lab. Only the latest devices, aseptic surfaces and perfectionistic design – as if Steve Jobs would have created it himself.”

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Deep Tech Field

Smart Labs

Client

Year

2019

Location

Munich, DE

Status

Completed

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Project highlights

SLA provides an end-to-end service for projects, starting with understanding the workflow of our clients to handing over an operational facility.

The Lab in the Plot

The basement of Prof. Dr med. Prof. h.c. Lorenz’ mansion is home to her personal home office laboratory.

It is here, where she helps her student Jasper develop personalized gene therapies that shall cure him from his otherwise untreatable and terminal Huntington’s disease.

Prof. Lorenz is aware of the biosafety risks her work imposes. That’s why she has some of the finest laboratory equipment available on the market. All in all, the equipment on set is worth more than 1M €. Enjoy this high-tech vision of the lab of tomorrow!

The Labs of Biohackers

The Story of Biohackers

We helped making Biohackers’ story as technologically accurate as possible and connected the directors with lab industry experts to create the modern labs and DIY biohacker space featured in the 2019 Netflix series. Read more about our involvement.

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Jasper's Biohackspace

Another protagonist of the Netflix series Biohackers, Jasper, has also built a private lab with only modest resources. We reached out to our friends from the biohacking community and got them involved in creating this “Biohackspace”, a place filled with simple, cheap and nonetheless effective DIY lab equipment.y

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Prof. Lorenz' University Lab

Prof. Lorenz has her own Lorence Excellence Center, where she runs her official studies.

In reality, the labs are located in LMU Biocampus Martinsried in the south of Munich and are used by students and professors for their regular research.

Our Inspiration to the Creators

What should be in the Lab of the Netlfix Biohacker’s Series? Here is the inspiration video Jérôme shot mid of 2019 in the [x] Biokitchen for the Netflix crew.

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The Crew

Our crew inspired and helped the production team to get the sets as close to reality as possible. We helped with each of our expertise throughout the entire process, from the idea and the selection of partners until the way how you use the products at the set.