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…
Pathogens like the Vaccinia virus exploit the actin cytoskeleton to move around on the surface of cells – this ‘surfing’ accelerates virus spreading between cells. This drawing was created to…
The prints on the skirt are created from real microscopy images of human cells. The blue layers show a collage of dividing cells, with green mitotic spindles segregating the blue…