How I helped solve a century-old Presidential paternity question using genetics
How modern scientific method such as genetic testing help solve historical questions in Philippine history?
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Genetics and Identity Drawing Group – The difficulty of building individual stories based on scientific data and other observations
The Ancestry Traveller project is my second meeting with high-tech sequencing and reading genetic information. In my synthetic motherhood project, I have been co-working with a forensic lab to predict the future look of my potential offspring. Ancestry testing allows us to do something opposite, to read the past (at least to a certain extent).
Unravelling the Genetic Mosaic: The Ancestry Traveller Workshops, Genetics and Identity Drawing Group
It's a fascinating creative opportunity being one of the 12 artists involved in the scientific and artistic aspects of the Ancestry Traveller workshops produced by the i3S team and Luisa Pereira, a Population Geneticist and the group leader on Genetic Diversity at the University of Porto.