BRUNSWICK — Brunswick resident Dana Waring Bateman will lead a conversation about gentics and ancestry at People Plus at 1 p.m. Thursday. The event is free and open to the public.
Bateman will also look at some social questions related to genetics, such as law enforcement, privacy and workplace discrimination, and de-extinction, which is a movement to use genetic engineering techniques to bring back extinct animals such as the passenger pigeon or the woolly mammoth.
Dana Waring Bateman is the co-founder and Education Director of the Personal Genetics Education Project at Harvard Medical School. She writes and lectures about the ethical, legal, social and familial questions related to DNA and society, which are on the rise as scientific discoveries are happening quickly and the costs of learning about one’s own DNA are dropping rapidly.
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