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
Lately, there seems to have been a lot of talk about the possibility of ‘lab-grown babies’. Proper research into this...
Some newly reported clumps of cells growing in lab dishes have been hailed as the closest things to human embryos...
KYIV, Ukraine — When Tanya, a 45-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, paid $10,000 and sent two embryos to...
Biopolitical Times
Even if you’re not familiar with the gene-editing technology CRISPR Cas-9, you’ve probably heard the term designer babies. Until...
August 14, 2019, marked the first meeting of another committee on heritable genome editing that is composed mostly of scientists...
Has a commentary in Nature shifted the landscape of the debate about editing the genomes of future children? Or will...