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
September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...
In response to: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2021.29121.gle
Levrier apparently misunderstands the nature of our project published in The CRISPR Journal in October 2020...
Abstract
Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear...
In the News
September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...
"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting
proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...
George Church is one of the world’s most famous pioneers of genetics and biotechnology. He has made colossal contributions to...
Biopolitical Times
The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing will be held in London on March 7–9, 2022. The three-day conference...
Almost a year after his election and in the midst of a global pandemic, President Biden has not yet nominated...
An organization of scientists is recommending that limitations on several experimental and controversial research procedures – including heritable genome editing...
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...