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
Remember the human cloning controversies of the early 2000s? One reason they faded was that scientists were unable to...
“I want to democratize science,” says biohacker extraordinaire Josiah Zayner.
This is certainly a worthy-sounding sentiment. And it is central...
This commentary was originally published on the IJFAB Blog.
For more than a decade, Canadian regulation has explicitly countered...
In the News
In a new study, four researchers reviewed policy documents from 106 countries to map out the policy landscape regarding...
Scientists using the Crispr gene-editing technology in human embryos to try to repair a gene that causes hereditary blindness found it...
Biopolitical Times
An Institute of Medicine committee is in the midst of a 19-month study, undertaken at the FDA’s request, of...
The summer and fall of 2014 have been a season of surrogacy scandals revealed. Media reports describe disturbing practices taking...
Last week's Global Summit on Childhood in Vancouver, a gathering of some 500 advocates for children and childhood, included a...
Talks and Testimonies
In an attempt to reimagine the aspirations of biotechnology, and to develop important questions, the Emory University Center for Ethics...
The Center for Genetics and Society was invited to speak about human germline modification at the first public workshop of the...
As part of the Science, Technology, Medicine & Society Speaker Series, Marcy Darnovsky presented at the University of Michigan in Ann...