Resource storage has long played a key role in the production of socio‐ecological
arrangements and economic relations. Even so, storage as a concept has remained …

Cryopreservation attracts attention as a practice grounded in high expectations: current life
is suspended for future use—to generate life, to save life, and to resurrect life. But what …

Assisted human reproduction has been deterritorialised into reproductive connectivity
networks capable of adapting to contradictory laws, technological development and the …

Assistive reproductive technologies are increasingly used to control the biology of fertility
and its temporality. Combining historical, theoretical, and socio-empirical insights, this paper …

The article focuses on the ability of some animals and plants to respond to changing
environmental conditions by temporarily suspending metabolic processes. In contemporary …

Anthropogenic pressures now shape the development, interrelations, and evolution of
microbes, plants, animals, and humans. In an age of oxidative stress and failures of DNA …

Market sociology research has accounted amply for the importance of material devices in
shaping markets. In contrast, the influence of biological entities (such as parasites, soil, and …

Assisted reproductive technologies have expanded vastly and are frequently addressed
using the language of revolution. The last two decades witnessed important transformations …

Today, emergent space technology engages in visions of future off-world colonizing, while
conservation technology is employed in ensuring the continuation of life on earth. In this …

Biobanks are becoming ubiquitous infrastructures in zoology and other non-human life
sciences. They promise to store frozen research samples for the long term for future use …