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
If you could choose the healthiest embryo to carry so that your future child could avoid deadly diseases, would you...
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...
Biopolitical Times
In the months since He Jiankui first announced the birth of gene-edited twins, there’s been a steady stream of revelations...
On July 17, the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics released “Genome Editing and Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Issues...
In late April, news broke that police used a public genealogy database to identify a suspect in the “Golden State...