Translucent sperm wriggle slowly across a sepia-toned laptop screen. Normally they're much faster, the embryologist tells me, but these little guys are slogging through a gooey liquid that slows them down. It makes them easier to catch. A skinny, hollow needle enters the scene from screen right and approaches a swimmer. The device sucks it inside, tail first. Its tiny, round body remains visible inside the clear sperm vacuum. The screen blinks to a new scene. The sperm disappear and are replaced by much larger, free-floating eggs. Human eggs.
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