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 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...
The “CRISPR babies” announced in headlines around the world recently turned two years old, and we still know nothing about...
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...