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Comparison of Perfluorodecalin and HEMOXCell as Oxygen Carriers for Islet Oxygenation in an In Vitro
Blood, meat, and upscaling tissue engineering: promises, anticipated markets, and performativity in the biomedical and agri-food sectors
Tissue engineering is a set of biomedical technologies, including stem cell science, which
seek to grow biological tissue for a diversity of applications. In this paper we explore two
emergent tissue engineering technologies that seek to cause a step change in the upscaling
capacity of cell growth: cultured blood and cultured meat. Cultured blood technology seeks
to replace blood transfusion with a safe and affordable bioengineered replacement. Cultured
meat technology seeks to replace livestock based food production with meat produced in a
bioreactor. Importantly, cultured meat technology straddles the industrial contexts of
biomedicine and agri-food. In this paper we articulate (i) the shared and divergent promissory
trajectories of the two technologies, and (ii) the anticipated market, consumer, and regulatory
contexts of each. Our analysis concludes by discussing how the sectoral ontologies of
biomedicine and agri-food impact the performative capacity of each technology’s promissory
trajectory