#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...
#4: My first genetic engineering experiment with the Engineer-it Kit
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...
#3: My first bacteria painting with the Canvas Kit
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...
#2: Setting up a home lab and doing a DNA Extraction Kit
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...
#1: Discover biotechnology with me, an 11th grader.
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.