#Cryosocieties
New CRYOSOCIETIES paper on umbilical cord blood biobanks and non-decisions by @afischercapote.bsky.social, Finja Filzinger & Ruzana Liburkina in Health (Open Access)

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Behind and beyond the (non-)use of cord blood banking: Delayed cord clamping and non-decisions - Finja Filzinger, Alessandro Fischer Capote, Ruzana Liburkina, 2026
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) banking has been criticised in social science scholarship as emblematic of the neoliberal responsibilisation of parenthood. Yet this ...
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May 29, 2026 at 7:30 AM
'Banking on stem cells as a source of hope' – a social science study on preserving stem cells from umbilical cord blood. It forms part of a European Research Council-backed 'Cryosocieties' project led by Goethe University Frankfurt: aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/b...
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Banking on stem cells as a source of hope | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
In the hope that they might be used in the future to cure illnesses, stem cells are still being preserved – despite low utilization rates. The idea behind stem cell […]
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May 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
#Biobanken sind aus der #Forschung an #Naturkundemuseen nicht mehr wegzudenken. Interdisziplinäre #Podiumsdiskussion zu Biobanken in Museen des 21. Jh., Mi, 26. Juni 2024, 18 Uhr im Museum Koenig Bonn t1p.de/vet4s (Eintritt frei) #GoetheUniFrankfurt #Cryosocieties #MuseumKoenigBonn
May 26, 2024 at 11:17 AM
There's a plethora of different storage types out there (stockpiles, buffers, accumulators, RAM ...) all of which have different effects on time (speed, sequence, synchronisation, reversability ...) so they're really worth studying. Or that's what I would have done if I could do Cryosocieties again.
June 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This grew out of the Cryosocieties ERC project that ended in March and is my attempt to make sense of some if the things @saralf.bsky.social, Ruzana Liburkina and I (and several others) found while studying biobanks: why aren't they hoarding stuff for all eternity?

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June 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM