Light fills the modern building, flooding in through big round windows and down wide hallways.
Labs at the institute, sleek with stainless steel, are sites of pioneering work in hi-tech, expensive genetics and molecular biology. Mulyoto Pangestu, an Indonesian Ph.D. student at the institute, has devised a way to dry and store sperm at room temperature. Yet the specimens last for years and remain potent. His technique may also have broader applications, providing an alternative to cold storage for any organization that needs to preserve organic materials. To be sure, sperm have been dried, stored at room temperature and used before by other scientists for later fertilization.