...Concepts and Instruments<subtitle>Studies in the History of Molecular Biology</subtitle> ...

... This chapter delves into the embodied nature of molecular modeling, to examine how seeing, feeling, and knowing are intertwined with the work of crafting molecular models. It offers a phenomenological account of the role of the modeler’s imagination, judgment, and intuition in rendering...

... This chapter examines forms of animation that rely on practitioners’ moving bodies. It foregrounds the affectively charged gestural choreographies that shape communication about molecular movements in research, teaching, and wider cultural contexts, including a large-scale 1972 choreography...

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... biological engineering mechanism tropes analogies and metaphors machine aesthetics molecular machines ...

... Taking the case of behavior genetics, this essay traces efforts to cope with scientific disappointments and the conflicts among scientists spurred by postgenomics. Behavior genetics has long anticipated the advent of molecular genetics and postgenomics as deliverance from its endemic affliction...

... This chapter highlights a range of ways that molecular models are rendered in time-based media. It takes a close look at computer graphic animations of molecular movements and phenomena such as protein folding and unfolding. The chapter argues that the narrative forms and temporalities...