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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In the News

A strand of DNA, in blue.
By John Harris (Pro); Marcy Darnovsky (Con), National Geographic | 07.15.2016

Pro: Research on Gene Editing in Humans Must Continue

By John Harris

In February of this year, the Human Fertilization...

Image of five people standing.
By Marcy Darnovsky, Dan Sarewitz, Samuel Weiss Evans, Arvis Sulovari, Eric A. Widra, Zócalo Public Square | 05.24.2016

With the ubiquitous ways we apply our knowledge of genetics today—in crop seeds, medicine, space—it’s hard to believe the...

Three bottles are held on a test tube rack as someone inserts fluid from a pipette.
By Marcy Darnovsky & George Church, Wall Street Journal | 04.10.2016

The development of technology that allows human genes to be edited has stirred tremendous excitement about the potential for treating...

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