After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear
age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples …

In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg
donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life …

In Media Hot and Cold Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature
to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation …

Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal
dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic …

This article analyses stockpiling as a security device that hoards time, stores power and
buffers disruptions. The stockpile is a temporal matter of security by virtue of its ability to …

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 …

In the US West, water stories are often aqueduct stories, narratives of moving the vital
resource from one place to another. This paper, in contrast, explores nascent efforts to keep …

This article explores how time-related metaphors frame advanced cryopreservation
technologies in environmental conservation. Cryopreservation “stops” or “freezes” biological …

Collections are made and maintained for pleasure, for status, for nation or empire building,
for cultural capital, as a substrate for knowledge production and for everything in between. In …

Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) are currently promoted as new translational models in
precision oncology. PDXs are immunodeficient mice with human tumors that are used as …