Aditya Bharadwaj is Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His principal research interest is in the area of New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies and their rapid spread in diverse global locales ranging from South Asia, North Africa to United Kingdom. Peter Glasner is Professorial Research Fellow for CESAGen at Cardiff University. His longstanding interests are in the organisation and management of the new genetics, the development of innovative health technologies, and in public participation in techno-scientific decision-making.

• 1. The Local, Global and Contextual: An Introduction 2. Dis-Locations: Local Cultures of Cells, Global Transactions in Science 3. Biosociality to Bio-Crossings: Encounters with Embryonic Stem Cells in India 4. Sacrificial Gifts: Infertile Citizens and the Moral Economy of Embryos 5. Miraculous Stem Cells: The Liminal Third Space and Media Rhetoric 6. One Ethic Fits all?: Complexities in Cross-Cultural Standardization, Bioethics and Regulatory Protocols 7. Local Cells, Global Science: Some Concluding Considerations

Aditya Bharadwaj is Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His principal research interest is in the area of New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies and their rapid spread in diverse global locales ranging from South Asia, North Africa to United Kingdom. Peter Glasner is Professorial Research Fellow for CESAGen at Cardiff University. His longstanding interests are in the organisation and management of the new genetics, the development of innovative health technologies, and in public participation in techno-scientific decision-making.

• 1. The Local, Global and Contextual: An Introduction 2. Dis-Locations: Local Cultures of Cells, Global Transactions in Science 3. Biosociality to Bio-Crossings: Encounters with Embryonic Stem Cells in India 4. Sacrificial Gifts: Infertile Citizens and the Moral Economy of Embryos 5. Miraculous Stem Cells: The Liminal Third Space and Media Rhetoric 6. One Ethic Fits all?: Complexities in Cross-Cultural Standardization, Bioethics and Regulatory Protocols 7. Local Cells, Global Science: Some Concluding Considerations