Use Gene Editing to Treat Patients, Not Design Babies | Marcy Darnovsky | TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool

March 21, 2021

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Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society, a California-based public interest organization that works for a world in which human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies benefit the common good. Marcy’s talk covers exactly that. She has recently focused on the prospect that heritable genome editing could undermine our chances for an inclusive future. Her articles on this have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, and others. Dr. Darnovsky addresses the pros and cons surrounding programs such as CRISPR, focusing on gene editing. Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, is Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society, a Berkeley, California-based public interest organization that works for a world in which human genetic and assisted reproductive technologies benefit the common good. Darnovsky speaks and writes widely about the social justice and human rights implications of human biotechnologies. Recently she has focused on the prospect that heritable genome editing could undermine our chances for a fair and inclusive future. Her articles on this topic have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Hill, National Geographic, and Nature. She is co-editor, with Osagie K. Obasogie, of Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics (University of California Press, 2018). She has been interviewed by hundreds of television, radio, print, and online outlets. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx