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.

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Publications

By Susan Berke Fogel, Francine Coeytaux, Marcy Darnovsky, Lisa Ikemoto, and Judy Norsigian, RH Reality Check | 04.23.2014
It is troubling to see the vexing question of commercial surrogacy treated as a litmus test for feminists at RH...
By Marcy Darnovsky; Jessica Cussins, Medical Laboratory Observer | 03.10.2014

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing gained notoriety in the autumn of 2008. That was when two prestigious publications, The New Yorker...

By Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times | 02.23.2014

An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration is set to begin two days of meetings tomorrow to consider...

In the News

By Anis Chowdhury, The Financial Express [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 12.13.2019

At the start of this year (February 06, 2019), The New York Times published Farhad Manjoo's passionate opinion piece, "Abolish...

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By Marcy Darnovsky, Southwestern Medical Perspectives | 12.04.2019

Should CRISPR be used to alter the genes and traits of future children and generations? Dozens of nations have considered this...

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By Victoria Turner, Synapse [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 11.08.2019

In 2018, the story broke of a Chinese researcher who had made real-life use of CRISPR to edit two human...

Biopolitical Times