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, Mother Jones blog | 11.03.2008

Just before the world's financial system hit the skids, the New Yorker's Talk of the Town and the New York...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Hank Greely, Democracy | 08.31.2008

Henry Greely inaccurately characterizes my organization, the Center for Genetics and Society, as "drawn to arguments against [inheritable human genetic...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Nature | 06.04.2008

Your Editorial 'New sources of sex cells' (Nature 452, 913; 2008), on the potential use of pluripotent stem-cell-derived gametes (PSCDGs)...

In the News

A cradle and a rocking chair occupy a baby room painted pink.
By Rebecca Gale, Dame [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 08.14.2018

In our on-demand era of reproductive liberty and technology, a child’s sex isn’t always left up to chance. As more...

Pipetting fluid into clear test tubes held in a blue container.
By Ian Sample, The Guardian [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.17.2018

The creation of babies whose DNA has been altered to give them what parents perceive to be the best chances...

3 different color cartoon drawing of DNA--blue, green, and orange--on a yellow background.
By Marcy Darnovsky, The Guardian | 07.17.2018

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly...

Biopolitical Times