In heated basements and garages where translucent tubes pump fluids and gases into converted aquaria. Media, flasks, enzymes, growth factors, hormones, antibiotics-you buy online, have them delivered, trade in makeshift markets. The equipment is discreetly cleaned out on Sundays, after waxing the car; the protocols you lazily download and follow like gospel until someone posts a better recipe. And, in the same dark corners where once homemade beer and short-wave radios were your grandest projects, clusters of cells fruitfully multiply under your proud gaze.
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