Katie Hasson
Katie Hasson, PhD, writes, speaks, researches, and teaches about the social and political aspects of human genetic and reproductive technologies. Katie earned her PhD in Sociology with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, and was previously Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
Publications
In November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...
The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...
Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture
The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...
In the News
A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the...
A US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" embryos they conceive for...
A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises...
Biopolitical Times
This week in London, some 400 people from around the world – including scientists, bioethicists, patients, journalists, civil society groups...
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James Wilson, director of the Gene Therapy Program at Penn’s...