Steve and Caleb are back from Summer Break! The guys catch up on how they have been spending their summer. Steve has been busy working on his Jeep all summer. Steve talks about how much he loves working on cars as a hobby. The guys talk about how fun it would be to have an old project car to work on. They also fill us in on how they have been spending their time in the lab. Caleb has been working on figuring out third gen sequencing, which neither Steve nor anyone else has heard of. Caleb warns about the troubles of being on the cutting edge of science. Steve talks about how he has been working on doing qPCR for his project. The guys give a quick lesson on RNA and cDNA and why you would want to perform qPCR and they talk about some of the troubles of working with RNA. They also explain why funding random science is so important and how you never know what a project will lead to. Caleb explains the story of how Taq polymerase was discovered. Finally, it is unfortunate that the guys have to end on talking about the problem of gun violence. There was recently a shooting in the Oregon District in Dayton, Ohio, both Steve and Caleb's home town. The guys discuss how they feel about it and what a complicated problem it is. They also give a couple of suggestions of what small things you could do to possibly indirectly help with this issue.

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