By Rohan M. Hopefully you’ve arrived here right after finishing our previous blog post on the Engineer-It Kit, and are hungry for an explanation a...

By Niyathi Kukkapalli   With the rise of ChatGPT, much controversy arises on the ethics of AI. For example, a student writing their college essays...

By Rohan M. OK, I don’t fault you if you’re a micropipette-or-two irked with me at this point. I’ve thrown around genetic-engineering-this and gen...

By Niyathi Kukkapalli   Nice to meet you, I’m Niyathi, a rising high school senior! Well, it may or may not come as a shock to you that Biology was...

By Rohan M. They said I wasn’t an artist. Well, they were wrong. Maybe I’m not a painter, or a sculptor, or an illustrator. Maybe I’m not a photogr...

By Rohan M. Strawberry-DNA header image by Rohan & DALL·E Open AI So, your DNA Playground just arrived in the mail and you can't wait to get s...

Hi! My name’s Rohan, and I’m an eleventh grader who’s always been interested in science and math. But (gasp!) I wasn't always a biology-lover. My primary interest was computer science. As I saw it, no other field could get you so much for so little. With the same programming language, you could code up a game, or a website, or even teach a computer how to see.

What I didn't realize is that biology occupies a similar position among the hard sciences. It was reading George Church's book Regenesis that showed me that biology is just as much a world of code, compilers, and robots as traditional computer science.

Welcome to a guest post by Jim Rea. Jim is a writer and the proud father of Patricia, a science-loving teenage daughter who, since her discovery ...

Welcome to a guest post by Patricia. Patricia is a Grade 8 student in Ontario, Canada and a volunteer with Markham’s youth-led STEM outreach group, STEM Kids Rock. She has been discovering genetic engineering at-home after discovering and exploring CRISPR for a school science fair project (She won her Regional's Bronze!). Here, Patricia talks about her journey to becoming a Genetic Engineering Hero...

“Why don’t you do something with coding?” I asked.  “This is coding,” she told me. “The REAL coding. The genetic code.” 

Jim is a writer and the proud father of a science-loving teenage daughter. Jim has been discovering genetic engineering alongside his daughter and navigating what it means to be a parent at the forefront of Genetic Engineering at Home. Here, Jim shares his journey...