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 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...
In New York City, a middle-schooler pulled over by police could end up in a largely secretive DNA database simply...
In a new study, four researchers reviewed policy documents from 106 countries to map out the policy landscape regarding...
Biopolitical Times
Our focus these days—like yours, I imagine—is largely on the spread of COVID-19 and its dire consequences. But our work...
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 ...
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...