11. The DNA chips are pieces of glass or plastic about the size of a microscope slide that can contain thousands of genes. 12. The naked man up there, being examined like something on a microscope slide, represents a corpse exhumed from an Alpine glacier. 13. The windows, which can be opened, have panes made from microscope slides. 14. They keep the lobby window free of fingerprints, spotless as a microscope slide. 15. To do this, the scientist would obtain fragments of the gene and deposit DNA bits onto a piece of glass about the size of a microscope slide. 16. Williams frequently encountered the black specks on his microscope slides while studying air samples in Denver. 17. In the shattered laboratories, only a few microscope slides remain whole. 18. The first step involves microarrays, which are about the size of a microscope slide and contain specific fragments of specially chosen DNA, the genetic building block. 19. The piles of silvery ashes recall the shape of stacked books but a few microscope slides are all that remain whole in the shattered laboratories. |