Dr. Liron Phalen shakes his head sadly as his friend and colleague Dr. Benjamin Hill returns the last of the draco minimalis plasma to the cryogenic cooler. The small chore is soon complete. There are only a few samples left, little more than a hundred milliliters in each macroplast container. An incalculable wealth of meta-microbiotic data, but futile, without any relevant application to the current track of research.