Abstract
Cell therapy and regenerative medicine are, like many other areas of bioscience, increasingly tied to translational aspirations to deliver improved healthcare, often manifest as pipeline models of delivery and the discourse of impact. However, it is simultaneously evident to most academics—be they scientists or not—that the pipeline idiom is inadequate to encompass the iterative, looping, and often circuitous realities of ‘translating’ knowledge into products and applications. This chapter argues that in the future, we will have to move beyond linear models of progress to incorporate ‘churn’, ‘circularity’, and ‘conversations’ as the 3Cs in the co-produced future of science and social science. In so arguing, the chapter maps out the various ‘intersections’ between social and basic science.
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See Donald (MacKenzie 1984, p. 473–502) for a discussion of the misuses of this quotation.
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The LRMN is one of the world’s largest independent, non-profit, and community-based networks of cell- and gene-therapy professionals from a wide range of sectors including science, medicine, law, policy, ethics, philanthropy, industry, and government. See more at http://www.lrmn.com/. The session described here took place in September 2014.
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Blastocysts cannot be used to cultivate immortalized cell populations because by this stage in early embryonic development the cells have begun to differentiate.
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Franklin, S. (2018). Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Cells Do Fly. In: Bharadwaj, A. (eds) Global Perspectives on Stem Cell Technologies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63787-7_2
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