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
A new generation of genetic engineering techniques, collectively known as "gene editing," is being hailed as a game-changer in the...
Specter highlights exciting developments in the field of gene editing, but he is too quick to dismiss the shadow side...
In the News
A $5.5 billion stem cell bond measure qualified this afternoon for the November ballot, but the campaign to win voter...
The announcement by the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui in November 2018 that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies...
Biopolitical Times
[Cross-posted from "What's New in Life Science Research" at ScienceBlogs]
I agree with Mike's first point: By...
[Cross-posted from "What's New in Life Science Research," at ScienceBlogs]
Obligatory puns notwithstanding, cloning - of humans, animals, and...
[ Cross-posted from "What's new in life sciences research" at ScienceBlogs, where Marcy Darnovsky will be posting...