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, San Jose Mercury News | 11.23.2007

Research teams at two prestigious universities announced a major feat of biological alchemy this week: They've taken ordinary human cells...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Philadelphia Inquirer | 11.05.2007

James Watson has left his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in disgrace. He's apologized for questioning the...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Alternet | 10.19.2007

It's Nobel Prize season, and the Nobel scientists are very much in the news. James Watson, awarded the laureate in...

In the News

Close up of a baby's eyes staring into the distance.
By Kurt Pitzer, People [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.21.2018

A Ukrainian doctor is creating genetically modified “three-parent” babies in an effort to give infertile women a chance to bear...

An artist's rendering of a futuristic-looking human figure made up of nitrogenous bases A, T, C, and G.
By Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.16.2018

The business of personal genetic-testing kits is booming, with consumers able to learn about their ancestry and health risks at...

Blue-tinted image of a human oocyte pierced by a needle.
By John D. Loike and Alan Kadish, The Scientist [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.14.2018

On June 7, news reports emerged that Valery Zukin, director of Nadiya Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Ukraine...

Biopolitical Times