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FrankenFlies
And in the "freaky, seemingly pointless, yet somehow compelling science" category we have an experiment that alters fruit fly brains so that females are genetically programmed to think they're male. Look, sometimes you have to do science for its own sake, because you never know where it'll lead.
Prof. Henry Higgins is looking smug.
Amber and I just commented that Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila Pseudobscura* will always hold a very special place in our hearts. Every damn geneticist in training has to learn about these. Hell, one of the rather infamous experiments with this is to cause their genitalia to grow on their antennae.
No. I'm not kidding. It's been done. So now my making cervical cancer glow because we introduced the luciferase gene (the protein that makes fireflies glow) coupled with a portion of the herpes virus into it doesn't seem all that weird.
*may have spelled this wrong. Am drinking.