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, The Hill | 12.01.2015

Should powerful new molecular engineering techniques be used to create genetically modified children? This is the question – literally, about...

By Charis Thompson, Ruha Benjamin, Jessica Cussins and Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 05.19.2015

The first day of BEINGS2015, “A Gathering of Global Thought Leaders to Reach Consensus on the Direction of Biotechnology...

By Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times | 03.02.2015

Many of us would be delighted to contribute to medical advances. But handing over reams of our genetic, health and...

In the News

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By Dolli Player and Alicia Matsuura, The Daily Universe [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.18.2020

In the early 2000s, genome editing seemed like the answer to parents who carried latent genes that could result in...

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By David Lazarus , Los Angeles Times [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.10.2020

These have been rough days for the DNA-testing business — an industry that sprang up seemingly overnight with promises of...

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By Roberto Andorno, Françoise Baylis, Marcy Darnovsky, Donna Dickenson, Hille Haker, Katie Hasson, Leah Lowthorp, et al., Trends in Biotechnology | 01.31.2020

Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture

The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...

Biopolitical Times

Gracing the front page of The New York Times Sunday Styles section this weekend is a lengthy account of a...

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...