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
A wave of controversy about reproductive gene editing gathered force in response to reports in 2015 of the first CRISPR...
What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And...
When we talk about gene editing technology, we often talk about—but almost never deeply consider—the concept of designer babies. Consider...
In the News
Discovering your genetic history can be as simple as spitting into a test tube, but what happens when your data...
When venture capitalist Jack Abraham first began dating his wife, Gabriella Massamillo, he insisted on one condition: that when they...
2023 was an important year for patients with sickle cell disease. Prior to CRISPR, the only cure for...
Biopolitical Times
The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon recently hosted a series of virtual events...
Public and policy conversations about heritable human genome editing often leave the impression that rules governing it are few and...
Last week, private equity mega-firm the Blackstone Group announced a deal to acquire Ancestry, the genealogy and direct-to-consumer DNA testing...