Alexis entered the medical lab and walked over to the secure storage locker where they kept patient samples. She keyed in her access code and glanced over the shelves. She pulled out the blood samples for Solal and V’alura. Alexis spent the time to prep the samples by hand. Then using a pipette she placed the samples into graduated microcentrifuge test tubes. She slipped the tubes into the centrifuge and then placed them into the sequencer.

Current technology made it a matter of moments before the computer was displaying the results of both their samples. Alexis returned the unused samples back to storage and then transferred the results to her office computer. She going to compile a complete genome sequencing. She could have gone for a clinical exome sequence, but that was obvious and could miss things. Alexis needed to look at everything. It would take hours, days even, to finish the analysis.

Bonner, AMO