This picture was taken by me during field work in the Tumor Biobank of the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, INcan.
Maria Amelia Rodriguez, "A sample tube", contributed by Maria Amelia Rodriguez, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 19 August 2019, accessed 17 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/sample-tube
Critical Commentary
The tube contains a very tiny part of the ovary tumor, which will now be one of the tumor samples stored in the tumor bank of INCan, waiting to be used by an interested researcher. Removed human organs are the raw material that feeds scientific research in this biobank. The tube is codified with an internal code of the tumor bank.