...Erika Amethyst Szymanski Abstract Humans and yeast have a long history of productive collaboration in making a global array of fermented foodstuffs including wine, bread, and beer. Synthetic biology is now changing the shape of human-yeast work. The Sc2.0, or “synthetic yeast,” project aims...

... as archetypal illustrations of salvaged and synthesized anabiotic creatures. De/extinction is presented as a liminal state of being, both living and dead, both fact and fiction, a realm that we have growing access to through the proliferation of synthetic biology and cryopreservation. The article concludes...

... of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). microbes more-than-human participation bioremediation multi-species plastic In her ethnographic study of the Yeast 2.0 project, Erika Szymanski reconceptualizes synthetic biology as a participative process in which yeast and microorganisms...

... Opportunities for Synthetic Biology.” 34. Mueller and Flachs, “Domestication, Crop Breeding, and Genetic Modification” ; Amin et al., “Factors Influencing Stakeholders’ Attitudes.” 35. Mao, Becoming Father , subtitles. 36. Mao, Becoming Father , subtitles. 37. Gong...

... and Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature : Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007). For the visioneers of synthetic biology, nanotechnology, or geo-engineering, moreover, the end of Nature leaves us free to enhance ourselves technologically or physiologically...

... “the information and biotechnologies necessary to design and program cells and organisms, including genetic engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology, metabolic engineering, and computational biology,” 15 it is “the result of rapid advances in precision biology that have allowed us to make huge strides...

... through several scientific vernaculars: (1) genomics, which looks for the heritability of CH 4 intensity; (2) synthetic biology, which engineers bovine genomes; (3) rumen microbiology, which reimagines the polluting cow as a holobiont; (4) biochemistry, which illuminates bovine metabolic processes; (5...

... Mosquitoes” ; Regalado, “The Extinction Invention” ; Adler, “Kill All the Mosquitoes?!” 40. Kelly and Lezaun, “The Wild Indoors,” 395 . 41. In 2015 Oxitec was bought by Intrexon and is now a subsidiary of the US-based synthetic biology corporation. 42. This is the case particularly...

... also mentions ozone depletion and acidification but focuses on climate change. 4 De-extinction and synthetic biology, notwithstanding. Thankfully the Manifesto does not bring up these pseudo-fixes. 5 The Manifesto acknowledges that conservation does not happen automatically...

... questioned, and who therefore appear duplicitous. Evidence of Carson and McMullen's persuasion can be found in the announcement of a Senate hearing on synthetic chemicals the day after the CBS broadcast, and more explicitly in the government report, Use of Pesticides, published a month later. At least...

... communities and ecological assemblages, I insist that modern humans are not exceptional in our dependence on synthetic chemistry. 21 Multispecies ethnographers have long studied sociality in spaces where the provision of food changes relationships among animals, 22 where contagious fears leap across...

... Talk to Each Other.” Given that 1 percent of global energy use goes toward manufacturing synthetic nitrogen, better understanding the collaborative dynamics between bacteria and crops is vital for the future of agricultural productivity. For suggestive research into the pathways of nitrogen fluxes...

... of the nineteenth century, studies of internal anatomy were added to this picture. 38 Today the tools of molecular biology have also joined the lineup. Importantly, new approaches to taxonomy have not simply superseded the old. Instead, they have been layered over one another to produce an integrative approach...

... to the threat of disease have tended to double down on efforts to exert complete control over livestock biology, calling for strict confinement practices and liberal use of vaccines and antibiotics along with maximum separation between the different components of the farm operation. 4 This “closed systems...

... about “harnessing the helminth secretome for therapeutic immunomodulators,” as the title of one paper puts it. 78 Scientists involved in decoding the hookworm genome speak of a veritable pharmacopoeia of synthetic (and thus patentable) molecules that will become available for a new phase of drug...

...Pieter Vermeulen Abstract This essay argues for the deep affinities between neoliberalism and environmental thought that embraces such figures as fungi, swarms, and especially trees. While critics like Rob Nixon turn to trees to promote modes of cooperative biology and plant communication...

... limits of geophysical and geochemical environmental conditions. From then onward the application of high-throughput molecular biology methods to natural microbial communities and assemblages has instigated a profound shift in how we “see” microbial worlds. With the rapid development of high-resolution...

... of interdisciplinary creative practice, bioart “adapts scientific methods and draws inspiration from the philosophical, societal, and environmental implications of recombinant genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology.” 4 Although their productions tend to mimic, parallel, or critique contentious developments...

... pills, greens, mice, and their often-overlooked synthetic laboratory diets. “Terrain” approaches to cancer entail thinking about nutrition alongside pharmacokinetics—how drugs move through and are absorbed by the body—and the ways in which the body can be cultivated, like soil. While acknowledging both...

... tribe from the Ecuadorian rainforest driven to extinction by “the encroachments of civilization.” 65 Marooned on the island, a high school biology teacher (Mary Hepburn) performs genetic experiments on the six girls, inseminating them with the semen of the last male left, the captain of the doomed...