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
A US startup company is offering to help wealthy couples screen their embryos for IQ using controversial technology that raises...
Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...
When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...
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...