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
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly...
To the Editor:
In “‘Race’ in the Age of Modern Genetics” (Sunday Review, March 25), David Reich does...
What do recent advances in molecular genetics have to do with human rights? Quite a lot, it turns out. And...
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...
Biopolitical Times
A committee of California’s state stem cell agency met on February 4 to consider whether it should fund genetic editing...
For controversy and consequence, no story in 2015 came close to the rapidly developing CRISPR-Cas9 “gene editing” tools, and the...
In 2015, CGS staffers and guest contributors posted 80 blogs at Biopolitical Times. Some were syndicated on our guest blog...
Talks and Testimonies
Marcy Darnovsky spoke about embryo selection and germline editing at the three-day workshop, Inter-country Medically Assisted Reproduction: Conceiving a human...
The Center for Genetics and Society spoke by invitation at the 500-person International Summit on Human Gene Editing in Washington...
Marcy was a speaker for a summer seminar for high school educators, “Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics...