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 Marcy Darnovsky and Jesse Reynolds, Biodiversity: The Newsletter of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (Winter 2010) | 02.24.2010

Synthetic biology is the rapidly developing field devoted to engineering life from the ground up. It has recently generated headlines...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Progress in Bioethics | 01.29.2010

From The MIT Press announcement:

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics
Edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam...

By Marcy Darnovsky, 2020 Science | 12.14.2009

Much appreciation is due to Andrew for his courage in soliciting "alternative perspectives" on technology innovation and life in the...

In the News

Human embryo under a microscope on blue background
By Emily Mullin, STAT [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.18.2019

Researchers at Columbia University in New York have created embryos containing genetic material from three people and are ready to...

A colorful image of a fertilized egg.
By Muri Assuncao, Daily News [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.11.2019

Oh baby!

A team of doctors from Greece and Spain announced the birth of a healthy baby boy who was...

Photo of He Jiankui in a blue collard shirt who experimented to make CRISPR'd twins who were delivered last November.
By Donna Dickenson, Marcy Darnovsky, Nature Biotechnology | 03.15.2019

To the Editor — The claim last November by He Jiankui to have engineered the first CRISPR-edited babies has ignited...

Biopolitical Times