Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her
Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy …

The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a
commonplace of everyday life. Pregnancy testing has never been easier. Waiting on one …

This article develops the concept of hydroponic capital in order to explain the emergence of
socionatural innovations aiming to enhance food security and production efficiencies in …

From the 1980s onwards, the Roslin Institute and its predecessor organizations faced
budget cuts, organizational upheaval and considerable insecurity. Over the next few …

In this paper, we investigate the ways in which a group of scientists in Edinburgh worked
across mice and sheep during the last quarter of the twentieth century. With this local …

There are unique opportunities that plant breeding and agriculture offer the historian of
biology and unique ways in which the historian of biology can inform the history of plant …

Since the late 1980s, the fetal origins of adult disease, from 2003 developmental origins of
health and disease (DOHaD), has stimulated significant interest in and an efflorescence of …

This paper presents a longitudinal case study in UK biotechnology covering some 30 years
during which genomic technologies were introduced into pig breeding. This case study …

Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996,
American embryologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully …

In this paper, rather than focusing on genes as an organising concept around which
historical considerations of theory and practice in genetics are elucidated, we place genetic …