The book that started it all. When I was in high school, I was troubled by a common idea in Christian circles: science was for atheists. But... I liked science a lot. I also believed in Jesus. What I knew about the God of the Bible just didn't seem to go against what I knew …
Meet Cas9!
You may have heard of Cas9 before in discussions and news about gene editing with CRISPR! (The two women who established how to use CRISPR-Cas9 in the lab won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.) In nature, CRISPR is a bacterial acquired immune system. It recognizes invading DNA, like from viruses for example, and "saves" …
Meet DNA Polymerase!
DNA Polymerase lives and works in the cell's nucleus where it is the star of DNA replication. In the cell nucleus, DNA Polymerase makes a copy of DNA to prepare for cell division. When a cell divides into two cells, it needs to make a copy of its DNA so that each resulting cell has …