by Steven Potter | May 14, 2019 | Magazine Article
From a hundred feet in the air, Moriah Rataczak inspects the fields of Gumz Farms in Central Wisconsin. Soaring through the sky like a hawk, she weaves back and forth, looking down over thousands of acres of mint, onions, potatoes, corn, and soybeans. It’s early...
by Bob Wake | Feb 21, 2019 | Magazine Article
Meghan O’Gieblyn brings something more than a wicked sense of humor and a keen critical eye to her debut collection of essays, Interior States. Homeschooled in Michigan by evangelical Baptist parents, O’Gieblyn later studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After...
by Steven Potter | Feb 6, 2018 | Magazine Article
Six years ago, an attack left Andy Fabino blind. While visiting his family in Chicago, Fabino was beaten so severely that he was in a coma for fourteen days. In addition to leaving him physically debilitated, the beating damaged Fabino’s optical nerves beyond repair....
by Jacqueline Houtman | May 10, 2016 | Magazine Article
Five years ago, the term CRISPR-Cas was familiar to only a handful of microbiologists. Today, thousands of scientists around the world are using this novel gene editing technology to advance research in basic science, medicine, agriculture, and industry. The...
by Shelby Anderson | Apr 29, 2016 | Magazine Article
In 2009, a team of doctors and scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin shook up the medical community by successfully sequencing a young Wisconsin boy’s DNA in order to identify and treat an unknown, life-threatening disease. That boy’s name is Nic Volker and...
