From: Natural State
- “Bither was intent over a shallow vessel half full of viscous clear liquid, with a great rounded veined-and-patterned glistening lump immersed in it, transparent in the phosphor-light that glowed from the sides of the container--a single living cell in mitosis, so greatly enlarged that every gene of every paired chromosome was visible. B.J. watched … as the man’s quick fingers dipped a hair-thin probe … into the yeasty mass, excising a particle, splitting another, delicately shaving a third.”