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Abraham, Itty
Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration (ETC)
actor-network theory
“add women and stir”
Adkins, Brent
ADVANCE
agential realism
agrostologists. See grass; stolons
ahimsa
AIDS
Alaimo, Stacy, Material Feminisms
alloplastic stratum
Althusser, Louis
Amyris
Anderson, Warwick
animal life
animals: cloning of; research on; transgenic. See also animal life; animal studies
animal studies
Ansell Pearson, Keith, Germinal Lives
antibiotics
anticolonial thought. See also decolonial perspectives; postcolonial STS
antimalarial drugs
applied ethics of matter
Aristotle
artemisinin
Åsberg, Cecilia
assemblages. See also machinic assemblages
autonomy
Avogadro’s number
Axel, Richard
bacteria: ability to alter their genomes; communication of; cryptographic skills; and feminist theory; as minimal genome organisms; nonhuman becomings in; response to antibiotics; sex and; viruses and. See also bacterial writing; E. coli; plasmids
bacterial writing
Banerji, Debashish
Barad, Karen: agential realism; ethico-onto-epistemological; intra-action; on “justice-to-come”; Meeting the Universe Halfway; mentioned; “On Touching”; and practice-oriented feminist STS; quantum physics and feminism
Baudrillard, Jean
Beauvoir, Simone de
becoming; Deleuze and Guattari on. See also becoming-with; biophilosophies of becoming; changefulness; nonhuman becomings
becoming-with
Belsham, Denise D.
bench science. See lab research
Bengalis
Bennett, Jane
Bensmaïa, Réda
Benston, Margaret
Bergson, Henri
Bharati, Baba Premananda
Bignall, Simone
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
binary frameworks. See also biology and culture; matter and language; sex and gender
BioBricks Foundation
biocapital
Bioethical Inquiry
biofuels
Bio-IT World
“biological codes”. See also bacterial writing
biology and culture
Biology As If the World Matters
biophilosophies of becoming: bacteria and; and becoming a blade of grass; and the concept of sex; Deleuzian and postcolonial perspectives in; and horizontal social movements; in molecular biology and feminist theory; qualities of; relationship to microphysiologies of desire; and synthetic biology; univocity and. See also becoming; changefulness; kinship and hylozoism
biophilosophy. See also biophilosophies of becoming
biopiracy. See also synthetic biology: and capitalism
biosemiotics
Birke, Lynda
Black Lives Matter
Bleier, Ruth
body without organs (BwO)
Bohr, Niels
Bök, Christian, The Xenotext
Bose, Jagadish Chandra
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Brahmo Samaj
Braidotti, Rosi; on becoming-minoritarian; and new materialism; on postmodern ethics and posthumanism; transpositions; view of molecular and molar approaches
Brazil
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
Bryant, Levi
Buck, Linda
Bush, George W.
Butler, Judith: exchange with Kirby; Gender Trouble, ; “Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex”; view of sex and gender; “What of life exceeds the model?”
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
capitalism
Carney, Gerald
Center for Gender-Based Biology (UCLA)
central dogma
changefulness; in bacteria; and Buck’s retraction
Chatterjee, Sushmita
Chen, Mel Y.
Chow, Rey
Cixous, Helene
clinical trials
cloning: of animals; feminism and; kits; metaphorical use of; politics and; UN ban on; and women’s liberation. See also genetic engineering; recombinant DNA; stem cell research; subcloning technique; synthetic biology
Colbert Report
Colebrook, Claire
Collins, Francis
companion species
constructivism
continental philosophy
contraception; RU486
Cooper, Melinda; Life as Surplus
cooperation of synthetic organisms
Corea, Gena, The Mother Machine
cosmopolitics
Crick, Francis
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system
cryptography. See also bacterial writing
cyborgs
Darwin, Charles
decolonial perspectives. See also postcolonial STS
Deleuze, Gilles: alloplastic stratum; on becoming; becoming-animal; biophilosophy of life; body without organs; cited by Grosz; cited by Massumi; on desire; Difference and Repetition; Eurocentrism of; feminist critiques of; “haecceity”; lines of flight; “machinic assemblages”; on maps; molar and molecular politics; nomadology; notion of vitalism; “pluralism = monism”; and postcolonial thought; repetition and difference; segmentarity; “thinking par le milieu”; A Thousand Plateaus; three strata; “tired of trees”; univocity and immanence; zones of indiscernibility
Dema, Leslie
Derrida, Jacques; Limited Inc
desire. See also micro-physiologies of desire
Despret, Vinciane
deterritorialization; Deleuze and Guattari on. See also decolonial perspectives
developmental systems theory (DST)
difference feminisms. See also equality feminisms
differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies
differential consciousness: Haraway; Sandoval
Diprose, Rosalyn, Cartographies
Discovery Channel
Discovery Magazine
disruptive action
DNA: bacteria and; and the central dogma; replication of. See also cloning; genetic engineering; minimal genome organisms; recombinant DNA; subcloning technique; synthetic biology
DNA: Pandora’s Box (television series)
Dolly the sheep
Dolphijn, Rick, New Materialism
Drug Monkey blog
dualism. See binary frameworks
Dunham, Maitreya, “Synthetic Ecology”
E. coli
Eimer, Sara Dawn
Einstein, Albert
endosymbiosis theory (symbiosis)
Endy, Drew
epigenetics
epistemology; feminist; inseparability from ethics and ontology; social justice. See also ethics; ontology
equality feminisms. See also difference feminisms
erotic
essentialism
estrogen: roles of; side effects of; therapies. See also estrogen receptors
estrogen receptors
ethics: applied ethics of matter; and “feeling for the organism”; in the laboratory setting; of matter; ontology and; posthumanist
ethnography
eugenics
Eurocentrism
evolutionary biology
experimentation. See also lab research
ExxonMobil
farnesene
Fausto-Sterling, Anne
feeling around for the organism. See also McClintock, Barbara: “feeling for the organism”
feminism: critiques of science; difference feminisms; equality feminisms; feminist epistemologies; “feminist science”; feminist science studies; and the humanities; molecular; return to biology and the body; scientists and; and stem cell research; women’s health activism. See also lab research: feminism and; feminist STS
Feminism and Science (ed. Nancy Tuana)
feminist STS: analytical frameworks for; critique of “interactionist” approaches; development of the field; and feminist science studies; and horizontal social movements; and interdisciplinarity; lab research and; molar and molecular approaches; ontology and ethics in; practice-oriented approaches
Ferrando, Francesca
Ferrell, Robyn, Cartographies
figuration
Firestone, Shulamith; The Dialectic of Sex
“flight from nature” (Alaimo)
Food and Drug Administration
Foster, Laura
Foucault, Michel, The Order of Things
Franklin, Rosalind
Franklin, Ursula
Freire, Paulo
Freud, Sigmund
gender biology. See also sex and gender
Gendered Innovations website
genetic engineering. See also synthetic biology
Genetic Savings and Clone Inc.
genome transplantation
“getting lost” (Lather)
Giordano, Sara
GnRH neurons: estrogen and; experimental research on; odor and
grass: becoming a blade of; Bharati on; and biophilosophies of becoming; grass roots; growth strategies; and human superiority; McClintock on; stolonic strategies of; Tagore on; taxonomy of
Gray, Russell
Griffiths, Paul
Grosz, Elizabeth: and Bergson; on biology and social change; on desire; on ethics; on feminist genealogies; on human and non-human; on molecular and molar approaches; theories on the body; Volatile Bodies
Guattari, Félix (with Deleuze): alloplastic stratum; on becoming; becoming-animal; body without organs; cited by Grosz; cited by Massumi; on desire; “haecceity”; lines of flight; “machinic assemblages”; on maps; molar and molecular politics; “pluralism = monism”; segmentarity; A Thousand Plateaus; three strata; “tired of trees”; zones of indiscernibility. See also Deleuze, Gilles
Hacking, Ian
“haecceity” (Deleuze and Guattari)
Haemophilus influenza
Haraway, Donna: becoming-with; concept of companion species; cyborg manifesto; emailed comments from; on figuration; on kinship; mentioned; on metaphors; multispecies ecojustice; naturecultures; queering the modest witness; situated knowledges; Staying with the Trouble; stem cells and sticky threads; “technical, organic, and political”; When Species Meet; “worlding”
Harding, Sandra
Hayward, Eva
Hecht, Gabrielle
Heisenberg, Werner
Hekman, Susan, Material Feminisms
Hinduism
Hird, Myra; The Origins of Sociable Life; Sex, Gender and Science
HIV/AIDS
Holland, Eugene
horizontal social movements
hormone replacement therapies
HPG axis
Hubbard, Ruth
Human Genome Project
humanism; of Tagore. See also individualism; posthumanism
humanities. See interdisciplinary activities
Human Microbiome Project
human therapeutic cloning
hylomorphism
hylozoism. See also kinship and hylozoism
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone. See GnRH neurons
iGEM competition
immanence. See also transcendence; univocity
imperialism
indeterminacy and accountability
India
indigenous knowledge
individualism
inorganic life. See also inorganic stratum
inorganic stratum
interactionist frameworks
interdisciplinary activities; and Deleuzian concepts; thigmatropism as model for
intra-action (Barad)
Irigaray, Luce
Jagger, Gill, Jainism
J. Craig Venter Institute. See also Venter, J. Craig; Synthetic Genomics Incorporated
“jumping generations” (van der Tuin)
Keasling, Jay
Keller, Evelyn Fox; biography of McClintock
Kember, Sarah
kinship and hylozoism: in biophilosophies of becoming, ; cloning and; in microphysiologies of desire
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirby, Vicky
knowledge production: practice-oriented approaches; relationship of the knower and the to-be-known; Western bias in
Koutroufinis, Spyridon
Kozo-Polyansky, Boris
Krasnogor, Natalio
Krishna
Kumar, Dinesh
lab research: feminism and; and “getting lost”; and theory-making; Sub/FEM/cloning; in vitro protocols. See also GnRH neurons; subcloning technique
Landecker, Hannah
language; matter and
Lather, Patti; Getting Lost
Latin America
Latour, Bruno
Levinas, Emmanuel
liberal feminism. See equality feminisms
life: animal; inorganic; “life itself”; ontology of; synthetic. See also minimal genome organisms; nonhuman becomings
Longino, Helen
Lorde, Audre
love
machinic assemblages: Deleuze on; monstrous couplings in; synthetic lives as
MacKenzie, Adrian
majoritarian approaches. See also molar and molecular approaches
mapping
Margulis, Lynn; “On the Origin of Mitosing Cells”; on the origins of sex; symbiosis; Symbiotic Planet
Martin, Emily; The Woman in the Body
Massumi, Brian
materialism; new
matter and language
McClintock, Barbara; “feeling for the organism”; on transpositions; univocity as articulated by
Mereschkowski, Konstantin
Mergler, Donna
Messing, Karen
metaphors
metaphysics: dominant traditions; new perspectives
methodology
microalgae
microphysiologies of desire: as applied ethics of matter; bacteria and; and becoming a blade of grass; and biological science; example of olfactory receptor research; and “feeling for the organism”; and feminist scholarship; “getting lost” as; and horizontal social movements; kinship and hylozoism in; and lab research; relationship to biophilosophies of becoming. See also applied ethics of matter
micropolitics; of cloning; of desire; of sex
Mills, Catherine
minimal genome organisms; bacteria; cooperation of; and interdisciplinary thinking; surrogates; yeast
Minnite, Lorraine
minoritarian approaches. See also molar and molecular approaches
Mitnick, Kevin
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
molar and molecular approaches; and feminisms of difference and equality; and feminist STS; in molecular biology; to sex and gender; in synthetic biology. See also majoritarian approaches; minoritarian approaches; molecular feminisms
molecular biology: central dogma in; molar and molecular approaches; molecular visualization; philosophy and. See also cloning; lab research; subcloning technique; synthetic biology
molecular feminisms; as disruptive actions
molecular politics
monism
Monod, Jacques
multispecies entanglements
Murphy, Michelle; Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Mycoplasma capricolum
Mycoplasma genitalia
Mycoplasma mycoides
Myers, Natasha
Nannochloropsis gaditana
National Black Women’s Health Project
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
Nature
naturecultures (Haraway)
neoliberalism. See also capitalism
neuroendocrinology. See also GnRH neurons
New England Biolabs
new materialism
nonhuman becomings
Obama, Barack
objectivity; aperspectival; pure; strong
olfaction
ontology: bacterial; and biophilosophy; Butler on; decolonial theory and; Deleuzian; and epistemology; and ethics; “excitable”; intra-actions and; of life; mechanistic; ontological univocity; performative; process
organic stratum
Ortiz, Fernando, Cuban Counterpoint
Oyama, Susan
Parisi, Luciana; Abstract Sex
Parton, Dolly
patents
Patton, Paul
Pauling, Linus
PCR
Pearson, Keith Ansell
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Philip, Kavita
philosophy: of biology; continental; inhuman; and science. See also biophilosophies of becoming
Piven, Frances Fox
plasmids; in subcloning procedure
Plato
Pollock, Anne
positivism
postcolonial STS. See also decolonial perspectives
postcolonial studies. See also decolonial perspectives
posthumanism. See also posthumanist ethics
posthumanist ethics
poststructuralism
practice-oriented approaches
Prasad, Amit
process ontology
protein modeling
Protevi, John
psychoanalytic theory
Rajasthani prints
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
receptors. See estrogen receptors
recombinant DNA. See also subcloning technique; synthetic biology
reductionism
Reeve, Christopher
reproduction
reproductive justice
reproductive neuroendocrinology. See also GnRH neurons
retraction of scientific findings
rhizomes. See also stolons
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea
RNA
Rogers, Lesley
Roosth, Sophia
Rose, Nikolas, The Politics of Life Itself
Rosser, Sue
Rouse, Joseph
Rubin, David
RU486
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Sagan, Dorion
Sandoval, Chela
Sanofi Aventis
Sargasso Sea
Sargent, Pamela
Sarkar, Sahotra
Schiebinger, Londa
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
science: feminist critiques of; knowledge-making in; and philosophy. See also lab research; molecular biology
science and technology studies. See STS
science fiction
“science wars”
scientific method
Scotus, John Duns
segmentarity
Self Help Clinic (Los Angeles)
Seth, Suman
sex: “abstract”; in bacteria; and clinical trials; diversity of; feminist treatment of; as haecceity; as immutable concept; as metaphor; origins of; reproduction and; segmentarity and; transgenic. See also sex and gender
sex and gender: binary view of; in biological research; definitions of; feminist theories of; gender biology. See also Gendered Innovations website
sexually transmitted disease (STD)
“shared perplexities” (Stengers)
Shaviro, Steven
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein
Shildrick, Margrit
Shiva, Vandana
Shivay, Yashbir Singh
Shou, Wenying
Simondon, Gilbert
simulacrum
sleep aids
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai
Smuts, Barbara
social justice
South Africa, indigenous knowledge in
Spanier, Bonnie; Im/Partial Science
Spinoza, Baruch
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty; “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism”
STDs
stem cell research
stem cells and sticky threads
STEM fields
Stengers, Isabelle: “cosmopolitics”; ecology of practices; mentioned; “moral” projects; notion of “risk”; Power and Invention; “shared perplexities”
Steward, F. C.
stolons: grass; and interdisciplinary methodology; stoloniferous plants
stratification. See also inorganic stratum; organic stratum
STS. See also feminist STS; postcolonial STS
subcloning technique; “mutated subcloning protocol”. See also Sub/FEM/cloning
Sub/FEM/cloning
Subramaniam, Banu; “Snow Brown and the Seven Detergents”
Suchman, Lucy
sugarcane
Sunder Rajan, Kaushik; Biocapital
Superman
symbiosis (symbiogenesis)
synthetic biology: approaches to; and bacterial writing; and biofuels; and capitalism; and the central dogma; challenges in; coding in; do-it-yourself; ethics of; interest in what biology can do; life cycle in; and notions of life; patents in; pharmaceuticals and; and the philosophy of biology; “shotgun” sequencing; study of cooperation between organisms; surrogates. See also genetic engineering; minimal genome organisms
Synthetic Genomics Incorporated
Tagore, Rabindranath
TallBear, Kim
taxonomy
teleology
Thacker, Eugene, After Life
theory-making
thigmatropism
Thomas, Jim
Thompson, Charis, “Confessions of a Bioterrorist”
Towards a Universal Biological-Cell Operating System (AUdACiOuS)
transcendence. See also immanence
transcription and translation
transgenic animals
transpositions
trees
Tuana, Nancy; Feminism and Science
Turing, Alan
univocity: and biopossibilities of becoming; in Deleuzian philosophy; and the Hindu concept of love; and microphysiologies of desire; new materialism and; and synthetic lives
urban social movements
US Department of Energy
van der Tuin, Iris: “jumping generations”; New Materialism
Venter, J. Craig; A Life Decoded. See also J. Craig Venter Institute; Synthetic Genomics Incorporated
ViaGen
viruses
vitalism
Wajcman, Judy
Waldby, Catherine
Waters, Erica
Watson, James
Watson, Maxine
Weber, Jutta
Western blot analysis
Whitehead, Alfred North
Willey, Angie
Wilson, Elizabeth
women in science. See also feminism; feminist STS
women’s health activism
women’s studies
Wozniak, Steve
writing. See also bacterial writing
yeast
zolpidem
zones of indiscernibility