The woman is extracting something from a test tube for some experiment.  The women are not particularly excited about what they are doing but they are content.  This procedure is merely one of many thousands of steps that must be taken over the course of many months in order to perform their experiment.  Each day brings progress but in small quantity.  Once the women get the results from their work, they will discover that they have found something no one has ever found before.  They write to a close professional friend and invite him to help them replicate the results to ensure their data is correct.  It is.  They publish their work and market the first vaccine for influenza.  the women are very successful but continue to do medial research in the hopes of discovering more information society could benefit from. 
