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
Recent developments in bioengineering promise the possibility of new diagnostic and treatment strategies, novel industrial processes, and innovative approaches to...
As of this year, the creation of genetically engineered and enhanced future human beings is no longer a scientific hypothetical...
Over the past few years, researchers have developed a set of powerful new techniques for altering and synthesizing DNA. These...
In the News
SACRAMENTO — In an election year dominated by a chaotic presidential race and splashy statewide ballot initiative campaigns, Californians are...
Abstract
Discussions and debates about the governance of human germline and heritable genome editing should be informed by a clear...
Proposition 14 on the November ballot asks voters to approve $5.5 billion to continue funding stem cell research in California...
Biopolitical Times
On March 21, 2014, the Center for Genetics and Society sent a letter signed by 53 prominent scholars and advocates...
To its credit, the fertility industry’s professional organization – the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) – has said...
Two prominent reproductive law attorneys, Theresa Erickson and Hilary Neiman, now await sentencing by a US district court after pleading...
Talks and Testimonies
On May 14th, 2015, Stanford's Center for Law and the Biosciences and Stanford's Phi Beta Kappa Chapter co-hosted a panel event...