Australian Biotech Playground : The Demon's Passage - Greg Egan

A skyscraper that holds many and varied research facilities with a shopping arcade on the ground floor. Floors two to ten hold consulting rooms: neurologists, endocrinologists, gynaecologists, rheumatologists. Floors eleven to eighteen house a wide range of pathology labs. Nineteen to twenty-five are filled with the offices of pharmaceuticals and medical instrumentation firms. Twenty-six to thirty hold libraries, conference rooms, and row after row of
quiet offices. Thirty-one to forty is administration and marketing. On top of that is a simulated Viennese cafe which revolves. Underneath the shoppers are five levels of research labs: flow cytometry, mass spectrometry,
X-ray crystallography, high performance liquid chromatography. Nuclear magnetic
resonance. There's a level of cold-rooms and freezers. There's a level of equipment stores, and another for chemicals. Second-lowest is where they keep the computers. Four of them, big as elephants. And underneath them all is the animal house.


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