Author: Tessa Moll

Gloves, embryos, and DDT: thinking with surfaces on toxicity in South Africa by Tessa Moll

In the early 1980s, researchers at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa were confounded by the persistent failure of their experimental mice embryos. The researchers had hoped…

Post date 25th February 2020
Post author By Tessa Moll
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Blue binders of white donors: sorting race out in South African IVF by Tessa Moll

Somatosphere

Miracle babies. The microscopic enchantments of embryos. The image of a woman holding that much-desired infant. In vitro fertilization, or IVF, is replete with awe-inducing imagery, often bordering…

Post date 7th February 2018
Post author By Tessa Moll
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