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
Scientists are getting closer to the possibility of making a new person from skin or blood cells – without the need for...
Chinese scientist Dr Jiankui He flouted the law and bioethics basics to create the world's first CRISPR gene edited babies...
Last Week in London, a small group of protestors braved it out in the rain in front of the Francis...
Biopolitical Times
On Tuesday, November 14, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on “Gene Editing...
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...