Marcy Darnovsky
Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, speaks and writes widely on the politics of human biotechnology, focusing on their social justice and public interest implications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Nature, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law and Policy Review, Democracy, New Scientist and many others. She has appeared on dozens of television, radio, and online news shows and has been interviewed and cited in hundreds of news and magazine articles. She has worked as an organizer and advocate in a range of environmental and progressive political movements, and taught courses at Sonoma State University and at California State University East Bay. Her Ph.D. is from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Publications
The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...
Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture
The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...
As genetic technologies merge with forensics, medicine, and human reproduction, renewed eugenic temptations are arising. The prospect of heritable genetic...
In the News
The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...
In the early 2000s, genome editing seemed like the answer to parents who carried latent genes that could result in...
These have been rough days for the DNA-testing business — an industry that sprang up seemingly overnight with promises of...
Biopolitical Times
Our focus these days—like yours, I imagine—is largely on the spread of COVID-19 and its dire consequences. But our work...
Abby Lippman, friend and colleague to the Center for Genetics and Society and myriad other social justice organizations, died on...
Scholars researching California’s twentieth-century legacy of eugenic sterilization, led by University of Michigan professor and Center for Genetics and Society ...
Talks and Testimonies
When you send your saliva to 23andme, you can get all kinds of genetic information — but now that it's...
Are designer babies going to become a reality in the near future?
On this episode Cormac speaks to former NASA...
Egg freezing has long offered hope for women who wish to delay having children. These days, some employers cover the...