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 this interview as in past public comments, Jennifer Doudna opens the door to using the CRISPR platform she helped...
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...
In the News
In a new study, four researchers reviewed policy documents from 106 countries to map out the policy landscape regarding...
Scientists using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos to try to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness found it...
Henrietta Lacks visited John Hopkins Hospital in 1951, complaining of vaginal bleeding. A mother of five children, Lacks was diagnosed by gynecologist...
Biopolitical Times
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 ...
The biggest surprise of the year was probably the birth, in Mexico, of a baby who was conceived following controversial...
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...