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
A wave of controversy about reproductive gene editing gathered force in response to reports in 2015 of the first CRISPR...
What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And...
When we talk about gene editing technology, we often talk about—but almost never deeply consider—the concept of designer babies. Consider...
In the News
Millions of people use genetic testing companies like 23andMe to learn more about their ancestry and health. But a new...
Persuadés que notre espèce est en train de disparaître, Malcom et Simone Collins, un couple américain en attente de son...
The Japanese biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi said earlier this year that he believes it will be possible to create a human...
Biopolitical Times
The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon recently hosted a series of virtual events...
Public and policy conversations about heritable human genome editing often leave the impression that rules governing it are few and...
Last week, private equity mega-firm the Blackstone Group announced a deal to acquire Ancestry, the genealogy and direct-to-consumer DNA testing...