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Genetic Engineering Symposium tonight at Whitworth

By: Tracy Simmons

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October 24, 2016

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Tonight at Whitworth University three experts will lead a symposium on genome editing.

“Editing the Genome: Should We Alter the Future of Humankind?” will be at 7 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Hall’s Robinson Teaching Theatre on the Whitworth campus.

Genome editing is one of the major scientific breakthroughs of recent years. Panelists will discuss whether the technology is something that should be feared or embraced, according to an announcement.

On the symposium will be Nigel Campbell, president of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies; Meaghan O’Keefe, a bioethicist from the University of California Davis, and Dr. Andrew Scharenberg, from the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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