I got to chat with Mariana Wolfner last week, an absolute legend of molecular biology who studies fruit fly reproduction. She figured out fruit flies have dagger penises that pierce through female fruit fly reproductive tracts and inject “manipulative” proteins that change her behavior by dropping them in liquid nitrogen and taking CT scans of their coi…
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