My Scarlet Letter

Drosophila_melanogasterAppeared in The University of Chicago Magazine, May/June 2013.

One at a time he was methodically picking up each Drosophila, plucking off its gonads, and dropping it in the other tray. Pick up, pluck, drop. Pick up, pluck, drop. A conveyor belt of castration.

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