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
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
The National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) has confirmed that heritable human genome editing (HHGE) remains illegal in South Africa...
A little-noticed change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines, published in May of this year, has put the...
A US-based startup called Heliospect Genomics is charging parents tens of thousands of dollars to "screen" embryos they conceive 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...