Recently, I had the pleasure and privilege to visit a lab for a few weeks, the pandemic has made it difficult but at last I got the chance to do that which social scientists do when they go to labs: shadowing scientists, observing, learning and above all asking questions. The ethnographic process requires the […]
As far as I know, there is no analogon to our plant in nature, no organism, which consists of one half of one species and one half of another. Hans Winkler, ‘On Graft Bastards and Plant Chimeras’, 1907 Written by Amy Hinterberger & Sarah Kowalski How did the Chimera monster end up lending her name […]
Amy Hinterberger in conversation with graphic designer, Maeve Redmond A series of changes—in biomedicine itself as well as in the scholarship on science and society—signal that it is a crucial time to reconsider the meaning and function of the human in the life sciences. Traditionally, ethical concerns and political protection have focused on the human […]
“Inside every stem cell is an organ waiting to happen—biologists have known this for generations. But only recently have they learned how readily that potential can be unlocked in culture” – Eisenstein 2018, 19 Organoids are three-dimensional (3D) assemblages of stem cells that mimic the architecture and functionality of a human organ in vivo. These […]
In developmental biology and stem cell science, the use of mice, and the creation of different kinds of chimeric mice have become both methods for validating and testing research questions, as well as a means for conducting translational research. Co-colour mice, a version of intraspecies chimera, while visually remarkable, are often overlooked in media and […]
