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
A wave of controversy about reproductive gene editing gathered force in response to reports in 2015 of the first CRISPR...
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
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
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...
Photo by Michael Longmire on Unsplash
A wave of corporate solidarity statements followed in the wake of resurgent Black Lives...