#4.5: What happens inside the cells during a genetic engineering experiment
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...
Plastic Pollution: Can AI and Biotech pave the way to solutions
By Niyathi Kukkapalli With the rise of ChatGPT, much controversy arises on the ethics of AI. For example, a student writing their college essays...
Meet Niyathi!
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...
How I Learned to Make Better Agar Plates at age 12
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...
Parenting a Teenage Genetic Engineer
“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...
