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 Susan Berke Fogel, Science | 04.20.2007

The newly issued International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research (G. Q. Daley...

By Marcy Darnovsky, TomPaine.com | 10.26.2006

As the midterm elections draw near, stem cell politics may be taking a new turn. For years, the debate about...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Mother Jones | 08.31.2006

Both "Breeder Reaction" and "Souls on Ice" begin to tackle the profound issues and difficult questions raised by new human...

In the News

A mannequin of a human with DNA nucleotides (A, G, T, C) sequenced across it's body.
By Alan Goodman, Marcy Darnovsky, et. al., New York Times | 04.02.2018

To the Editor:

In “‘Race’ in the Age of Modern Genetics” (Sunday Review, March 25), David Reich does...

A small, pink ceramic piggy bank is nestled in the middle of a woven basket full of golden eggs.
By Lindsey J. Smith, San Francisco Magazine [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.23.2018

After spending her 20s as an aid worker in Africa and India, Helena moved to the Bay Area in 2012...

University Hospitals building in Cleveland, Ohio
By Ginger Christ, The Plain Dealer [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.21.2018

CLEVELAND, Ohio - After two recent failures of cryotanks storing eggs and embryos, a number of agencies and organizations are...

Biopolitical Times