Cell freezing and the biology of inexorability: on cryoprotectants and chemical time

H Landecker - BioSocieties, 2024 - Springer
What can't freezing hold still? This article surveys the history of substances used to protect
cells and organisms from freezing damage, known as cryoprotectants. Dimethyl sulfoxide …

[HTML][HTML] Anticipating and suspending: the chronopolitics of cryopreservation

T Lemke - BioSocieties, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The article brings together two disparate and so far largely disconnected bodies of research:
the critical analysis of cryopreservation technologies and the debate on modes of …

“Being useful, I think it's the result of a sick society”: Critical reflections on reproductive politics and markets by women freezing their eggs in Spain

S Lafuente-Funes - BioSocieties, 2024 - Springer
This piece analyzes the way in which women that froze, are considering freezing or are
freezing their eggs in Spain think critically about broader reproductive politics in Spain and …

Babies: Kinship and Relations

S van Wichelen, M de Leeuw - Biolegality: A Critical Introduction, 2024 - Springer
This chapter focuses on reproductive technologies and demonstrates how they alter the
social meaning of biological relations and legal parenthood. The conventional legal …

Efecto de la doble vitrificación de embriones en los resultados de FIV

C Díez Acedo - 2024 - digibuo.uniovi.es
La criopreservación de embriones ha revolucionado las técnicas de reproducción asistida,
ofreciendo oportunidades de uso futuro a los embriones supernumerarios de un ciclo …