“See the World” Part 1: Intermediate
A kaleidoscope. Neon colors, pink, green, and blue swirled together. Even when Neil closed his eyes, he could still see the patterns moving on the back of his eyelids.
The cells looked like bees flying close together. At the same time, you could see each bee, even each fuzzy hair.
Neil had practiced with DNA samples and diseased animals multiple times, but the “lenses” still disturbed him–especially now that there was an actual person in front of him. He was one of the first doctors to test the lenses on a human. He was also the first doctor to look at HIV with the lenses. The patterns were so vivid and easy to see that Neil was sure genome editing would work. He just needed to see the disease and type what he saw into the computer, which would do the rest of the work for him.
Still, maybe he would make a mistake. Neil bit his bottom lip and looked at the disease again.
On the surgery table, the patient lay under a paper sheet. The sheet and her skin looked see-through with the lenses. But the HIV was bright. Neil saw the most HIV cells below the patient’s stomach. They looked like blue and pink spots on her skin. Neil knew the disease was actually under her skin, but it looked like it was floating on top with the lenses.
Fun for Fluency! 