Suitable substances: how biobanks (re)store biologicals

Bärnreuther, Sandra

doi:10.1080/14636778.2018.1546572

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“…The notion of 'life as such' has been created to discuss the biologisation of life and to point at lives that are lived and embodied, in the context of migration (Fassin, 2009, p.48). The ethnography of this text invites the suggestions offered by the notion of life as such into biology laboratories where life itself is studied and made (on IVF see also, Merleau-Ponty, forthcoming and Bärnreuther, 2018). It is through the acknowledgments of different forms of death that we have shown this, highlighting a hierarchy justified by various ways biologists understand what 'life' means.…”

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A Hierarchy of Deaths: Stem Cells, Animals and Humans Understood by Developmental Biologists

Merleau-Ponty

2019

Science as Culture

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Stem cell basic science has sparked a lot of attention because of its use of cells coming from 'destroyed' embryos. An ethnographic study conducted in two developmental biology laboratories located in India and France demonstrates that lab professionals do not see the use of these cells as controversial. What appears to be a major topic of reflection is the killing of mice. A hierarchy of deaths is delineated when biologists evoke the kind of lives at play in their science. A comparison between narrations of cell experimentations and mice sacrifices enriches a biological approach to the living through genetics, which is nonetheless performed in daily scientific practices. Laboratory workers enact other perceptions that point at being alive or having a life. They acknowledge, with personal convictions or expressions of intense affects, lives that are said to be embodied and experienced, while being hierarchised for the sake of science and dying patients. Laboratory workers' narratives of a hierarchy of deaths provide them with arguments to engage with discussions happening outside of their workplace about the handling of living materials in experimental settings.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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A Hierarchy of Deaths: Stem Cells, Animals and Humans Understood by Developmental Biologists

Merleau-Ponty

2019

Science as Culture

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“…“For Indians and By Indians.” I was struck by the change of photographs from different races to photographs with people who visibly looked Indian in the second image. In advertising ethnicity as the source of finding an exact HLA match, science also calls for an affinity and similarity (Bärnreuther, 2018 ) among blood relatives (Street, 2009 ). It also suggests that genetics provides a language of kinship and affinity, creating communities of individuals banking on genetic advancements, risk, and research (Silverman, 2008 ).…”

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Thalassemia, biobanking infrastructures, and personalized stem cell therapies in Chennai

Panwar¹

2023

Front. Sociol.

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Thalassemia and leukemia and related blood disorders are approved for blood stem cell transplants in India, for a stem cell transplant to be successful, the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) complex located on the arm of chromosome six must be a match between the cord blood donor and the recipient. In the quest to find an exact blood stem cell match for an individual, the HLA becomes the node at the center of community genetics where the HLA match is sought (not necessarily successful) in the extended family, the same caste, language, and ethnic (both national and the diaspora) groups. By considering thalassemia as a case study, how do we understand personalized stem cell therapies within biobanking infrastructures in Chennai? How do social categories get entwined with biological materials like cord blood?

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“…I was struck by the change of photographs from different races to photographs with people who visibly looked Indian in the second image. In advertising ethnicity as the source of finding an exact HLA match, science also calls for an affinity and similarity (Bärnreuther, 2018) among blood relatives (Street, 2009). It also suggests that genetics provides a language of kinship and affinity, creating communities of individuals banking on genetic advancements, risk, and research (Silverman, 2008).…”

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Personalized Health and Precision Medicine in Practice

2024

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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Suitable substances: how biobanks (re)store biologicals

Cited by 8 publications

References 48 publications

A Hierarchy of Deaths: Stem Cells, Animals and Humans Understood by Developmental Biologists

A Hierarchy of Deaths: Stem Cells, Animals and Humans Understood by Developmental Biologists

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