"superbaby" flies above DNA double helix
By John Donvan, WNYC and Open to Debate [with Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.23.2026

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Some call it eugenics, an unsettling step toward a world of “designer babies” reserved for...

Image of multiple babies
By Miguel Muñoz, Cadena SER [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.08.2026

"Para ellos, una familia numerosa no solo es una preferencia personal, sino que es una obligación. Creen que tener tantos...

a photo of Simone and Malcolm Collins
By Anne Branigin, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.04.2025

Photo by TeggorMindFish via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

It's a...

hands gloved in green working with pipette and filling tubes
By Rob Stein, Regina G. Barber, Berly McCoy, NPR [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.29.2023

In which we meet the pioneers of one of the most exciting — and controversial — fields of biomedical research: ...

DNA strand
By Rob Stein, NPR [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.15.2023

Photo by Sangharsh Lohakare on Unsplash

On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San...

artificial intelligence logo
By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.13.2023

Après une période assez défensive dans le secteur de la tech, des dirigeants comme Sam Altman, le père de ChatGPT...