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 announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...
Heritable Human Genome Editing: Nearing a Critical Juncture
The impending decision about whether to develop and use heritable human genome...
As genetic technologies merge with forensics, medicine, and human reproduction, renewed eugenic temptations are arising. The prospect of heritable genetic...
In the News
September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and...
"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting
proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...
George Church is one of the world’s most famous pioneers of genetics and biotechnology. He has made colossal contributions to...
Biopolitical Times
Abby Lippman, friend and colleague to the Center for Genetics and Society and myriad other social justice organizations, died on...
Scholars researching California’s twentieth-century legacy of eugenic sterilization, led by University of Michigan professor and Center for Genetics and Society ...
The biggest surprise of the year was probably the birth, in Mexico, of a baby who was conceived following controversial...
Talks and Testimonies
Hosted by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Executive Director Marcy Darnovsky was a panelist for a debate and dialogue on...
CRISPR, the powerful gene editing technique that enables the precise modification of genes, is revolutionizing medicine and biotechnology. It can...
Sponsored by the Health and societies of the Lang Center, Sociology and Anthropology, Black Studies.
Marcy Darnovsky and Dorothy...