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
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
Après une période assez défensive dans le secteur de la tech, des dirigeants comme Sam Altman, le père de ChatGPT...
Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Monday for the Third International Summit on Human...
He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who shocked the world by creating the first children with edited genomes, says research must...
Biopolitical Times
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...
Our focus these days—like yours, I imagine—is largely on the spread of COVID-19 and its dire consequences. But our work...
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...