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.
In the News
If you could choose the healthiest embryo to carry so that your future child could avoid deadly diseases, would you...
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...
Biopolitical Times
Even if you’re not familiar with the gene-editing technology CRISPR Cas-9, you’ve probably heard the term designer babies. Until...
August 14, 2019, marked the first meeting of another committee on heritable genome editing that is composed mostly of scientists...
Has a commentary in Nature shifted the landscape of the debate about editing the genomes of future children? Or will...