Dmitriy Myelnikov
Biographic Data
| ID | 929391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dmitriy Myelnikov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dmitriy |
| FAMILY NAME | Myelnikov |
| SIGNATURE | MYELNIKOV D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5504-608X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation
What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape. I address methodological and pragmatic aspects of these projects, especially concerns related to anonymity and recovering memories of practice, as well as institutional…
Circulating bodies: Human-animal movements in science and medicine
The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s
Cryopreservation, or the freezing of embryos or sperm, has become a routine part of many research projects involving laboratory mice. In this article, we combine historical and sociological methods to produce a cryopolitical analysis of this less explored aspect of animal research. We provide a longitudinal account of mouse embryo and semen storage and uses in the UK and show that cryopreservation enabled researchers to overcome particular challe…
Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–2000
This article examines why early twenty-first century animal research governance in Britain foregrounds the 'culture of care' as its key problem. It adopts a historical perspective to understand why the regulation of animal research became primarily a problem of 'culture', a term firmly associated with the social relations of animal research, at this time and not before. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Sheila Jasanoff, Stephen Hilgartner an…
Creature features: The lively narratives of bacteriophages in Soviet biology and medicine
The term ‘bacteriophage’ (devourer of bacteria) was coined by Félix d'Herelle in 1917 to describe both the phenomenon of spontaneous destruction of bacterial cultures and an agent responsible. Debates about the nature of bacteriophages raged in the 1920s and 1930s, and there were extensive attempts to use the phenomenon to fight infections. Whereas it eventually became a crucial tool for molecular biology, therapeutic uses of ‘phage’ declined sha…
Animal research nexus: A New Approach to the Connections Between Science, Health and Animal Welfare
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and its acceptability is contingent on a complex network of relations and assurances across science and society, which are both formally constituted through law and informal or assumed. In this paper, we …
Tinkering with genes and embryos: The multiple invention of transgenic mice c. 1980
Genetically modified or 'transgenic' mice are a routine experimental tool in biomedical research, commonly produced by injecting DNA into one-cell embryos. These animals were independently invented in 1980 by multiple university groups in the United States and Europe that combined expertise in mouse developmental biology and recombinant DNA techniques, or 'genetic engineering'. In this article, I examine this multiple invention and argue that res…
Between mice and sheep: Biotechnology, agricultural science and animal models in late-twentieth century Edinburgh
In this paper, we investigate the ways in which a group of scientists in Edinburgh worked across mice and sheep during the last quarter of the twentieth century. With this local episode, we show the utility of an interspecies perspective to investigate recent historical transformations in the life sciences. We argue that the emergence of animal biotechnology was the result of interactions between neoliberal policymakers, science administrators, m…
María Jesús Santesmases, The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain. Health, Wealth and Authority
The story of penicillin is among the core narratives in the history of twentieth-century biology and medicine. An iconic ‘magic bullet’, the drug embodied medical progress and promised to end infectious disease, while its mass production was among the early examples of big science, relying on international collaboration between academic and industrial players, enhanced by military efforts.1 More recently, historians have been paying attention to …
An Alternative Cure: The Adoption and Survival of Bacteriophage Therapy in the USSR, 1922–1955
Felix D’Herelle coined the term bacteriophage in 1917 to characterize a hypothetical viral agent responsible for the mysterious phenomenon of rapid bacterial death. While the viral nature of the “phage” was only widely accepted in the 1940s, attempts to use the phenomenon in treating infections started early. After raising hopes in the interwar years, by 1945 phage therapy had been abandoned almost entirely in the West, until the recent revival o…
Cuts and the cutting edge: British science funding and the making of animal biotechnology in 1980s Edinburgh
The Animal Breeding Research Organisation in Edinburgh (ABRO, founded in 1945) was a direct ancestor of the Roslin Institute, celebrated for the cloning of Dolly the sheep. After a period of sustained growth as an institute of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), ABRO was to lose most of its funding in 1981. This decision has been absorbed into the narrative of the Thatcherite attack on science, but in this article I show that the choice to r…
Metaphors and tracers: Radioactivity in twentieth-century biology
Animal research nexus: A New Approach to the Connections Between Science, Health and Animal Welfare
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and its acceptability is contingent on a complex network of relations and assurances across science and society, which are both formally constituted through law and informal or assumed. In this paper, we …
Between mice and sheep: Biotechnology, agricultural science and animal models in late-twentieth century Edinburgh
In this paper, we investigate the ways in which a group of scientists in Edinburgh worked across mice and sheep during the last quarter of the twentieth century. With this local episode, we show the utility of an interspecies perspective to investigate recent historical transformations in the life sciences. We argue that the emergence of animal biotechnology was the result of interactions between neoliberal policymakers, science administrators, m…
Cuts and the cutting edge: British science funding and the making of animal biotechnology in 1980s Edinburgh
The Animal Breeding Research Organisation in Edinburgh (ABRO, founded in 1945) was a direct ancestor of the Roslin Institute, celebrated for the cloning of Dolly the sheep. After a period of sustained growth as an institute of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), ABRO was to lose most of its funding in 1981. This decision has been absorbed into the narrative of the Thatcherite attack on science, but in this article I show that the choice to r…
Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–2000
This article examines why early twenty-first century animal research governance in Britain foregrounds the 'culture of care' as its key problem. It adopts a historical perspective to understand why the regulation of animal research became primarily a problem of 'culture', a term firmly associated with the social relations of animal research, at this time and not before. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Sheila Jasanoff, Stephen Hilgartner an…
An Alternative Cure: The Adoption and Survival of Bacteriophage Therapy in the USSR, 1922–1955
Felix D’Herelle coined the term bacteriophage in 1917 to characterize a hypothetical viral agent responsible for the mysterious phenomenon of rapid bacterial death. While the viral nature of the “phage” was only widely accepted in the 1940s, attempts to use the phenomenon in treating infections started early. After raising hopes in the interwar years, by 1945 phage therapy had been abandoned almost entirely in the West, until the recent revival o…
Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation
What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape. I address methodological and pragmatic aspects of these projects, especially concerns related to anonymity and recovering memories of practice, as well as institutional…
Metaphors and tracers: Radioactivity in twentieth-century biology
Cuts and the cutting edge: British science funding and the making of animal biotechnology in 1980s Edinburgh
The Animal Breeding Research Organisation in Edinburgh (ABRO, founded in 1945) was a direct ancestor of the Roslin Institute, celebrated for the cloning of Dolly the sheep. After a period of sustained growth as an institute of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), ABRO was to lose most of its funding in 1981. This decision has been absorbed into the narrative of the Thatcherite attack on science, but in this article I show that the choice to r…
An Alternative Cure: The Adoption and Survival of Bacteriophage Therapy in the USSR, 1922–1955
Felix D’Herelle coined the term bacteriophage in 1917 to characterize a hypothetical viral agent responsible for the mysterious phenomenon of rapid bacterial death. While the viral nature of the “phage” was only widely accepted in the 1940s, attempts to use the phenomenon in treating infections started early. After raising hopes in the interwar years, by 1945 phage therapy had been abandoned almost entirely in the West, until the recent revival o…
Tinkering with genes and embryos: The multiple invention of transgenic mice c. 1980
Genetically modified or 'transgenic' mice are a routine experimental tool in biomedical research, commonly produced by injecting DNA into one-cell embryos. These animals were independently invented in 1980 by multiple university groups in the United States and Europe that combined expertise in mouse developmental biology and recombinant DNA techniques, or 'genetic engineering'. In this article, I examine this multiple invention and argue that res…
Between mice and sheep: Biotechnology, agricultural science and animal models in late-twentieth century Edinburgh
In this paper, we investigate the ways in which a group of scientists in Edinburgh worked across mice and sheep during the last quarter of the twentieth century. With this local episode, we show the utility of an interspecies perspective to investigate recent historical transformations in the life sciences. We argue that the emergence of animal biotechnology was the result of interactions between neoliberal policymakers, science administrators, m…
María Jesús Santesmases, The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain. Health, Wealth and Authority
The story of penicillin is among the core narratives in the history of twentieth-century biology and medicine. An iconic ‘magic bullet’, the drug embodied medical progress and promised to end infectious disease, while its mass production was among the early examples of big science, relying on international collaboration between academic and industrial players, enhanced by military efforts.1 More recently, historians have been paying attention to …
Creature features: The lively narratives of bacteriophages in Soviet biology and medicine
The term ‘bacteriophage’ (devourer of bacteria) was coined by Félix d'Herelle in 1917 to describe both the phenomenon of spontaneous destruction of bacterial cultures and an agent responsible. Debates about the nature of bacteriophages raged in the 1920s and 1930s, and there were extensive attempts to use the phenomenon to fight infections. Whereas it eventually became a crucial tool for molecular biology, therapeutic uses of ‘phage’ declined sha…
Animal research nexus: A New Approach to the Connections Between Science, Health and Animal Welfare
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and its acceptability is contingent on a complex network of relations and assurances across science and society, which are both formally constituted through law and informal or assumed. In this paper, we …
Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–2000
This article examines why early twenty-first century animal research governance in Britain foregrounds the 'culture of care' as its key problem. It adopts a historical perspective to understand why the regulation of animal research became primarily a problem of 'culture', a term firmly associated with the social relations of animal research, at this time and not before. Drawing on the theoretical insights of Sheila Jasanoff, Stephen Hilgartner an…
Circulating bodies: Human-animal movements in science and medicine
The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s
Cryopreservation, or the freezing of embryos or sperm, has become a routine part of many research projects involving laboratory mice. In this article, we combine historical and sociological methods to produce a cryopolitical analysis of this less explored aspect of animal research. We provide a longitudinal account of mouse embryo and semen storage and uses in the UK and show that cryopreservation enabled researchers to overcome particular challe…
Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation
What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape. I address methodological and pragmatic aspects of these projects, especially concerns related to anonymity and recovering memories of practice, as well as institutional…
Biology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Animal testing and alternatives (3 works) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (3 works) · Biotechnology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)