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
In response to: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2021.29121.gle
Levrier apparently misunderstands the nature of our project published in The CRISPR Journal in October 2020...
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...
In the News
Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...
Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos...
KYIV, Ukraine — When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to...
Biopolitical Times
This week in London, some 400 people from around the world – including scientists, bioethicists, patients, journalists, civil society groups...
Rehua, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
James Wilson, director of the Gene Therapy Program at Penn’s...
Talks and Testimonies
This podcast discussion peeks into the world projected by J.D. Lasica in his new genetics thriller novel, Biohack. Bioethics...
Jesse Mulligan, from RNZ radio in New Zealand talks to CGS' own Katie Hasson regarding how many New Zealanders have sent off...
The Center for Genetics and Society receives numerous invitations to speak in person and via video link to high school...