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A scanning electron microscope guides molecular biologist Andrea Skantar in injecting an altered gene into the ovary of an adult C. elegans nematode. A fluorescent marker gene will tag the transformed offspring and provide clues about gene function inside the worm.
Photo by Keith Weller.
