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 question of where the line should be drawn in human gene editing, and if it should be allowed to...
The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...
Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture
The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...
Biopolitical Times
On September 20, Nature published a study led by Kathy Niakan at the Francis Crick Institute in London that used...
On July 26, news broke that scientists led by Shoukrat Mitalipov used CRISPR to perform gene editing on human embryos...