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 Japanese biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi said earlier this year that he believes it will be possible to create a human...
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...
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...