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
Scientists are getting closer to the possibility of making a new person from skin or blood cells – without the need for...
Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies...
Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis...
Biopolitical Times
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...
Photo by Michael Longmire on Unsplash
A wave of corporate solidarity statements followed in the wake of resurgent Black Lives...