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
The “CRISPR babies” announced in headlines around the world recently turned two years old, and we still know nothing about...
Abstract
Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear...
WHEN THE GENEALOGY company Ancestry released the latest update to its “ethnicity estimates” last month, a lot of people suddenly became...
Biopolitical Times
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...
In the months since He Jiankui first announced the birth of gene-edited twins, there’s been a steady stream of revelations...