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.
In the News
"This structure has novel features, which are of considerable biological interest." It was perhaps the greatest understatement of all time...
A new study offers a cautionary tale for using the widely hyped gene-editing tool CRISPR on people.
The gene-editing technology...
As of this year, the creation of genetically engineered and enhanced future human beings is no longer a scientific hypothetical...