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 May 2017, Nature Methods published a short, peer-reviewed letter reporting on a study of off-target mutations caused by CRISPR...
Twenty years after its release, the film Gattaca remains an enduring touchstone for discussions of human genetic technologies. Starring Ethan...
Last January, CGS predicted that gene editing would be one of the biggest science stories of the year. This has...