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 fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly...
To the Editor:
In “‘Race’ in the Age of Modern Genetics” (Sunday Review, March 25), David Reich does...
In the News
Oh baby!
A team of doctors from Greece and Spain announced the birth of a healthy baby boy who was...
A group of 18 prominent scientists—including some who helped develop CRISPR–Cas9, the current leading tool for gene editing—issued a call...
A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited...
Biopolitical Times
Ruth Hubbard — prominent biologist, feminist scholar, multi-faceted social justice advocate, and critic of what she termed “the gene myth”...
A fertility industry-sponsored bill that would expand the market in human eggs is barreling through the California legislature, in spite...
Currently, California – like many countries – allows women who provide eggs for research to be reimbursed for travel, lost...
Talks and Testimonies
Innovations in gene editing, and particularly CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the hallmark of...
CGS Executive Director Marcy Darnovsky spoke at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on...
The Center for Genetics and Society receives numerous invitations to speak in person and via video link to high school,...