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
Pro: Research on Gene Editing in Humans Must Continue
By John Harris
In February of this year, the Human Fertilization...
With the ubiquitous ways we apply our knowledge of genetics today—in crop seeds, medicine, space—it’s hard to believe the...
The development of technology that allows human genes to be edited has stirred tremendous excitement about the potential for treating...
In the News
In November 2018, at a gene-editing “summit” hosted by scientific societies from the U.S., the U.K., and Hong...
Powerful genome editing procedures that could prevent parents from passing on heritable diseases to their children are far from ready...
Biopolitical Times
Sex selection technologies and sex-selective abortion are legally prohibited in India, where their use in the service of son preference...
Picture the visit to the doctor's office: As a small child in soccer uniform climbs onto the examining table, her...
The email's subject line was meant to be a grabber: "Surprising results: Does the public support DNA patents?"
The link...