Microbial Extractions: Sequence-based Bioprospecting, Augmented Promises, and Elusive Politics
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In view of the end golden years Norwegian oil economy, ocean genetic resources are being advertised in policy environments as holding great potential for future country. Microbes have increased popularity promising agents new bioeconomy, advances gene sequencing technologies and genomics made them more accessible. This paper examines turn toward digital sequence data bioprospecting to inquire about its political implications. It draws on a combination empirical materials describe infrastructural work that goes into extracting microbes from their situ locations arctic subarctic waters silico collections databases. I argue work, may become both elusive public matters. As biodiversity is turned data, appears less dependent material samples, which ultimately render frameworks governance obsolete. The shift big entails shifts how promise attributed biodiversity, life forms appear be promising, such come good.
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عنوان ژورنال: Science, Technology, & Human Values
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0162-2439', '1552-8251']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211055693