Tuberculosis is a serious infectious disease and one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The disease-causing bacteria, called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, are depicted in the drawing in red. To overcome stress…
This logo depicts the main research topics in the labs of Karen Oegema and Arshad Desai at the University of California San Diego focusing on the molecular mechanisms of cell…
Crocheting the mitoribosome - a combination of a hand-drawn illustration with a real structure of the human mitochondrial ribosome. Ribosomes are giant machineries composed of protein and ribosomal RNA that…
My new cover for EMBO Reports - illustrating how editing of RNAs prevents autoimmunity! Our immune system is extremely efficient in protecting us from foreign pathogens, yet at the same…
The Molecular Muscle Experiment will be sending worms into space to study the negative effects of spaceflight on the body, and to help discover therapies to enable long-distance space exploration…
It's a wonderful honor to present my new drawing for this year's ASCB|EMBO meeting! Take the ASCB Model Organism quiz to find out what model organism you are! The intricate patterns…
Brain tumors are aggressive and deadly cancers, yet it has been difficult to study them in the laboratory. A new Nature Methods paper reports a ground-breaking method to grow tumors…
A gibbon is swinging across a river within an epigenetic landscape, which regulates compaction and expression of our DNA. The arid desert illustrates loosely packed DNA containing actively expressed genes,…
When a mutation within human populations is under positive selection, neighboring DNA sequences hitchhike along with it in a process called selective sweep. These neighboring nucleotides make it difficult to…