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
As genetic technologies merge with forensics, medicine, and human reproduction, renewed eugenic temptations are arising. The prospect of heritable genetic...
Should CRISPR be used to alter the genes and traits of future children and generations? Dozens of nations have considered this...
As the debate about heritable genome editing unfolds, divergent perspectives are coming more clearly into view. Those who see it...
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
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...
Ruth Hubbard — prominent biologist, feminist scholar, multi-faceted social justice advocate, and critic of what she termed “the gene myth”...
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,...