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 and Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 09.17.2007

The full story of 36-year-old Jolee Mohr's recent death in a gene therapy clinical trial for rheumatoid arthritis is still...

By Marcy Darnovsky, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.13.2007

Later this month, a committee of the National Institutes of Health will discuss the recent death of 36-year-old Illinois resident...

By Marcy Darnovsky, [Letter to the Editor] New York Times Magazine | 08.26.2007

Peggy Orenstein's article (July 15) about the experiences of women who conceive and bear children using other women's eggs focuses...

In the News

Close up of a hand holding a test tube and inserting a pipette into the tube.
By Stuart Leavenworth, McClatchy DC Bureau [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.29.2018

It markets its DNA kits with promises that tug at the heartstrings: Discover ancestors. Strengthen family ties. Understand your life...

Oocyte with zona pellucida
By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.14.2018

When future historians look back on the 21st century, one of the most iconic photos may be...

Burnt orange background with a shadow of two children holding hands. There is a boy on the left and a girl with pigtails on the right.
By Malcolm Ritter, AP [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 04.18.2018

So you want to have a baby.

Would you like a dark-haired girl with a high risk of someday getting...

Biopolitical Times