Contamination in vitro, in vivo
All of these journal, magazine, and newspaper headlines call our attention to a problem—a crisis even—of contamination, invasion, and toxicity. Some of them are referring to contamination between species of plants and animals. Others decry the contamination of human cells. But what does it mean that when we come together to talk about cell and tissue cultures or environmental conservation, we simply can’t seem to get out of the language of invasion and contamination?
