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
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 November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...
In the News
I recently received a thoughtful letter from a college student I do not know – I'll call her Claudia* –...
The Bayer Corporation has made it clear that the creation of a biological research facility on its waterfront property in Berkeley, California, will...
New guidelines released Wednesday remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human...
Biopolitical Times
An organization of scientists is recommending that limitations on several experimental and controversial research procedures – including heritable genome editing...
Don’t miss Perfect – “a dive into the brave new world of genetic engineering” – in two live virtual performances...
Writing in the pages of The New York Times, Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar argues that a coming technological...
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...