Редактирование: Guide to cytology (раздел)

=== [[File:Biopsy_64.png|Biopsy Tool]] Hunting for cells ===
The first and most straightforward way of doing this is using your biopsy tool on a creature, if it is able to be cultivated, a green light on the tool will indicate you have collected a viable cell sample. The drawback of this is of course you have to obtain a living or dead specimen of the creature you want to create.

The second and perhaps more exciting method is using your sterile swabs to swab objects for cell samples. A successful swab will often yield a mixture of cell lines from different organisms. 

Thanks to the excellent janitorial staff aboard the station, most objects are quite clean and thus unfit for this purpose. Fortunately enough, the grimy, cold and dank maintenance shafts provide the perfect environment to hunt for biological samples. 

Try swabbing anything that looks gross. There is a good chance such objects are covered in precious biofilm, a thin coat of microorganisms as well as cells from various earth and space creatures.

When you swab a piece of maintenance filth and a splotch of biofilm collects on the swab, you know you have done it right, because this means you have a mixed cell sample, ready for cultivation in the lab.

What follows is a list of the broader categories of sample-rich filth and garbage you can find. Most of these spawn at the start of the round, so collect your samples early, lest the janitor scrub them clean!

{| class="wikitable"
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! scope="row" | Sludge
| Decomposing Garbage, Old Vomit, Old Rotting Gibs, Trash Carts
|-
! scope="row" | Moisture
| Moisture Traps
|-
! scope="row" | Mold
| Dirty Matresses, Moldy Bread, Moldy Pizza, Moldy Messes
|-
!Algae
|Neglected fern (Rare chance to find in maintenance)
|-
|}