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 November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...
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...
In the News
Photo by National Human Research Institute on Flickr
Earlier this year, the police in Eugene, Ore., said they had identified...
The birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in 1978 provoked a media frenzy. In comparison, a little girl...
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...
Biopolitical Times
The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, scheduled for March 7-9 in London, has now been postponed to...
The watchdog group Public Citizen published a report on October 19 titled Pfizer’s Power. It is a devastating indictment...
An organization of scientists is recommending that limitations on several experimental and controversial research procedures – including heritable genome editing...