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Pérez-Bustos, Olarte Sierra, and Díaz del Castillo deploy feminist theory on the politics of care to examine how gender figures in the ways various scientific practices and practitioners are made visible or invisible and their value increased or diminished. In particular, they examine how women forensic geneticists in Colombia have framed their work within a broader concern for serving justice. They demonstrate that giving care can be at odds with academic concerns, such as the desire to publish results, and thus diminish the status of the work, but not its technical difficulties.