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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Scientists have been tinkering with the DNA in humans and other living things for decades. But one thing has long...
Researchers have erased a genetic glitch that causes heart defects in dozens of human embryos with surprising success, fixing the...
Last week, US scientists edited a human embryo for the first time. That’s just the beginning.
The first step is...