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 the News
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...
Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture
The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...
Biopolitical Times
What next for the notoriously under-regulated and highly lucrative assisted reproduction industry? Some developments to look for:
- Sex selection. U.S...
Check out Osagie Obasogie's take on one-stop embryo shopping, published in today's Boston Globe. Some excerpts:
JENALEE RYAN has...