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.
Publications
To the Editor — The claim last November by He Jiankui to have engineered the first CRISPR-edited babies has ignited...
Despite the appearance of agreement, scientists are not of the same mind about the ethics and governance of human germline...
The fierce global controversy over whether to alter the genes of future children and generations just got fiercer. On the...
In the News
The Bayer Corporation has made it clear that the creation of a biological research facility on its waterfront property in Berkeley, California, will...
New guidelines released Wednesday remove a decades-old barrier to stem cell research, recommending that researchers be allowed to grow human...
Biopolitical Times
Concerns about cross-border fertility arrangements – especially human rights violations of women serving as surrogate mothers or providing eggs –...
A committee of California’s state stem cell agency met on February 4 to consider whether it should fund genetic editing...
For controversy and consequence, no story in 2015 came close to the rapidly developing CRISPR-Cas9 “gene editing” tools, and the...
Talks and Testimonies
Marcy Darnovsky delivered the convocation address at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society.
In her...
The Baby Markets International Congress celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the Baby Markets Roundtable series founded by the Center for...
Presented by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB with support...