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Intergalactic Intelligent Transmission...!

This is actually a picture of cellular artefact taken through a microscope when I was working with a cancer research group way back in 2006. The technique we were using was FISH (Fluorescent in situ hybridisation) used to localise specific DNA sequences in chromosomes. It's a fascinating technique, pretty powerful. It was always amazing to be transported to a whole new world of darkness and brilliant bursts of colour just by peering into the lens of the microscope. After hours of staring at cell after cell however, one very quickly began to imagine all sorts of weird and whimsical in that teeny universe!

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Uploaded on August 21, 2007
Taken on August 21, 2007