Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.

"Essential reading for those interested biopolitics, bioethics, science studies, and genetics, genomics, and the new omics."  - Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa (New Genetics and Society) "One of the most exciting books published this year, Natasha Myer’s Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter, is an ethnography of protein modellers, the first such study of this new and central area of biological research." - Sherryl Vint (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) "Amplifying instances of haptic and creative thinking opens avenues for a different kind of science than one may find presented in popular media.... The result is not only intellectually invigorating but also abounds in amusing curiosities. One might say 'eye opening,' but in the spirit of the book, it would perhaps be better to say 'vivifying.'"  - Jonathan G. Wald (Current Anthropology) "Rendering Life Molecular offers an engaging view into the world of scientists who describe the unseeable." - R. M. Denome (Choice) "Rendering Life Molecular is a thought-provoking book, a whirlwind ethnography pregnant with epistemological and empirical insights on movements, practices, knowledge and reasoning around proteins, which can and should inform future philosophical studies of modeling as well as STS work on experimental practices in and beyond biology." - Sabina Leonelli (Metascience) "... logical, theoretically and methodologically iterative, and, most importantly, ethnographically rich and robust."- Udo Krautwurst (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xiiiIntroduction  1Part One. Laboratory Entanglements1. Crystallographic Renderings  352. Tangible Media  743. Molecular Embodiments  99Part Two. Ontics and Epistemics4. Rending Representation  1215. Remodeling Objectivity  136Part Three. Forms of Life6. Machinic Life  1597. Lively Machines  1828. Molecular Calisthenics  204Conclusion: What Is Life Becoming?  230Appendix: A Protein Primer  239Notes  243Bibliography  277Index  299

Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.

"Essential reading for those interested biopolitics, bioethics, science studies, and genetics, genomics, and the new omics."  - Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa (New Genetics and Society) "One of the most exciting books published this year, Natasha Myer’s Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter, is an ethnography of protein modellers, the first such study of this new and central area of biological research." - Sherryl Vint (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) "Amplifying instances of haptic and creative thinking opens avenues for a different kind of science than one may find presented in popular media.... The result is not only intellectually invigorating but also abounds in amusing curiosities. One might say 'eye opening,' but in the spirit of the book, it would perhaps be better to say 'vivifying.'"  - Jonathan G. Wald (Current Anthropology) "Rendering Life Molecular offers an engaging view into the world of scientists who describe the unseeable." - R. M. Denome (Choice) "Rendering Life Molecular is a thought-provoking book, a whirlwind ethnography pregnant with epistemological and empirical insights on movements, practices, knowledge and reasoning around proteins, which can and should inform future philosophical studies of modeling as well as STS work on experimental practices in and beyond biology." - Sabina Leonelli (Metascience) "... logical, theoretically and methodologically iterative, and, most importantly, ethnographically rich and robust."- Udo Krautwurst (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xiiiIntroduction  1Part One. Laboratory Entanglements1. Crystallographic Renderings  352. Tangible Media  743. Molecular Embodiments  99Part Two. Ontics and Epistemics4. Rending Representation  1215. Remodeling Objectivity  136Part Three. Forms of Life6. Machinic Life  1597. Lively Machines  1828. Molecular Calisthenics  204Conclusion: What Is Life Becoming?  230Appendix: A Protein Primer  239Notes  243Bibliography  277Index  299

Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.

"Essential reading for those interested biopolitics, bioethics, science studies, and genetics, genomics, and the new omics."  - Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa (New Genetics and Society) "One of the most exciting books published this year, Natasha Myer’s Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter, is an ethnography of protein modellers, the first such study of this new and central area of biological research." - Sherryl Vint (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) "Amplifying instances of haptic and creative thinking opens avenues for a different kind of science than one may find presented in popular media.... The result is not only intellectually invigorating but also abounds in amusing curiosities. One might say 'eye opening,' but in the spirit of the book, it would perhaps be better to say 'vivifying.'"  - Jonathan G. Wald (Current Anthropology) "Rendering Life Molecular offers an engaging view into the world of scientists who describe the unseeable." - R. M. Denome (Choice) "Rendering Life Molecular is a thought-provoking book, a whirlwind ethnography pregnant with epistemological and empirical insights on movements, practices, knowledge and reasoning around proteins, which can and should inform future philosophical studies of modeling as well as STS work on experimental practices in and beyond biology." - Sabina Leonelli (Metascience) "... logical, theoretically and methodologically iterative, and, most importantly, ethnographically rich and robust."- Udo Krautwurst (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xiiiIntroduction  1Part One. Laboratory Entanglements1. Crystallographic Renderings  352. Tangible Media  743. Molecular Embodiments  99Part Two. Ontics and Epistemics4. Rending Representation  1215. Remodeling Objectivity  136Part Three. Forms of Life6. Machinic Life  1597. Lively Machines  1828. Molecular Calisthenics  204Conclusion: What Is Life Becoming?  230Appendix: A Protein Primer  239Notes  243Bibliography  277Index  299