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
WHEN THE GENEALOGY company Ancestry released the latest update to its “ethnicity estimates” last month, a lot of people suddenly became...
In November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...
In 2018, Jiankui He (pictured) announced that he had edited genes in embryos to create two baby girls.
Gene editing...
Biopolitical Times
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...
What might have been the story of the year turned out to be a disappointment. On February 14th, the National...