New animation from our studio! Fireflies and glowing waves come from one small molecule: a square of 2 carbons and 2 oxygens that breaks and emits light. Stanford found force breaks it in reverse order vs. heat. humsci.stanford.edu/feature/new-...
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Three of the six figures we designed for a review that's just out in Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. The paper is "Restoring brain barriers: an innovative approach for treating neurological disorders."
New cover! When oxygen runs low in blood, gate between brain and blood stream starts to leak, and that leak is one of the earliest signs of brain injury. This team tried shining specific wavelengths on damaged barrier cells and restored the seal. And they found the actual molecular switch behind it!
It was so cool in to see one of our covers pop up at #FENS2026🧠✨ in a talk by @Pawel_Burkhardt's on the origins of the nervous system featuring the beautiful work on choanoflagellates. The studies on choanoflagellates and ctenophores shed light at how sensory-motor systems evolved - fascinating!
💙Getting a drug-delivering gel to stay on mucus-coated tissue is genuinely hard. The team designed a gel that forms in seconds using a bond the body can naturally break down over a few days. Also it doesn’t just coat the surface, it reaches into the mucus layer and tangles with it directly.
🧴Two biodegradable plastics, PBS and PCL, don't mix. The fix in this work is a special "matchmaker" polymer that gets the two to crystallize together. They form structures the team calls spherulites with the internal architecture encoding how material will biodegrade at the end of its life.
Our cover in Nature Immunology! 🔬✨ Resident memory vs exhausted T cells in tumors: they look alike but are shaped by completely different signals. One fights, one is worn down. This work shows cancer therapy needs distinct strategies for each.
This figure, created by our studio for a recent @cellpress.bsky.social StemCell review on #NeuralOrganoids. The goal isn't just to make figures look beautiful. It's to make complex science easier to understand without sacrificing accuracy. doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
What if a tumor could be turned against itself? 🎯 My cover illustrates a new approach to cancer immunotherapy 🧬 Nanoparticles deliver self-amplifying RNA into the tumor, triggering IL-12 production that recruits the body’s own immune cells and reprograms it from within 💙 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/adfm...
How does a silkworm spin a fiber stronger than steel? 🐛🧵 We created the 3D animation for a beautiful new study in Nature Communications, revealing (for the first time!) how silk is actually made, step by step, inside the silk gland of a worm. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New cover in #Small! 💡✨ Some materials have flaws that can emit light in a special way. Scientists want to use them to build quantum computers. The problem is making those flaws exactly the way you want them. The team figured out how: by choosing the right kind of particles to bombard with!
💙 My cover in ASC Nano 20th anniversary issue! ✨ Research showed that when tiny particles moving at incredible speed pass through a material, they leave behind narrow damaged tunnels inside it. Knowing how materials handle this kind of hit is important for better #nuclear reactors and #spacecraft.
Does a journal cover actually help your research reach more people? We decided to find out and published the results in Journal of Scientometric Research. Full paper: 'How Cover Selection Boosts Article Reach' - open access: www.jscires.org/article/15/1... We would love to hear what you think.
💜 The research is about two similar #molecules self-assembled into completely different structures: one forms twisted #nanofibers, the other spreads into flat #membrane-like patches. Just a small difference in their core structure changes everything about how they organize. 🔗 doi.org/10.1021/acs....
We just got back from AACR 2026. Met so many brilliant scientists and clinicians working on the cutting edge of cancer research, and had some really inspiring conversations about how visualization can help bring their work to life.
Sharing one of our favorite #covers! ✨🔬 This is the December 2025 special issue of Optics & Photonics News. They are annually showcasing the most exciting optics research of the year. We love that our illustration for Judith Su gets to be the face of it 💙
New illustration for Nature paper - MitoCatch🧠✨ Some neurological diseases damage #mitochondria, tiny power stations inside our cells. Temurkhan Ayupov figured out how to deliver healthy mitochondria directly to the diseased cells, like a transplant.
🎨 We are heading to San Diego for #AACR2026 - find us at Booth #3639 (April 19 - 22)! Cancer researcher or science communicator? Come say hi.
New cover in Advanced Sensor Research! ✨ Researchers built a tiny disposable sensor that can detect a biomarker for oral diseases directly from saliva. The sensor works by molecular imprinting. Congratulations to Alexander Shokurov, Max Nobre Supelnic, and Carlo Menon! 💙 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/adsr...
In academia, the main result is a paper, nowadays mostly digital text and figures 🖥️ . It represents enormous effort, but it's hard to feel it as something truly achieved... That's why we love sending prints as something the researchers can hold and actually feel as the result of their work 😊 ❤️
#AdvancedScience Cover! 🧠✨ This one is about the role of cell #membrane in brain cells #communication. The team used ultra-sensitive #sensors to watch single neurotransmitter molecules interact with membranes in real time. They observed that some molecules stick around, some just pass through.
👁️ New cover!✨ Did you know that #nanoparticles are used for the drug delivery inside of a human eye? 👀 (Honestly, I knew only about the eye drops 🤭) Scientists can now also use a #laser to steer nanoparticles to exactly the right place inside the eye. This makes drug delivery even more precise!
🩷My new cover illustrates a carbon nanotube surrounded by blood proteins forming a “biomolecular corona”. Basically, researchers used it as a molecular fingerprint of the tumour and its whole environment to detect the tumor. Beautiful concept, beautiful science - everything we like!
During the ACS conference, we received so much positive feedback from our customers 🥰 We are very grateful for trusting us to bring the ideas into reality! We always love to express our gratitude by sending the cover print as a gift. Ph: @edelplopez.bsky.social with a print we sent as a gift ❤️
🌱Our #NewCover depicts funny insects recorded by a camera for identification and monitoring by a new AI tool 📸 🐛 @edelplopez.bsky.social from @ulaval.ca emphasize that #agriculture must balance effective crop protection with reducing the environmental damage caused by traditional pesticide use.
If you are at #ACS this week in Atlanta - come say hi! 👋 We are at Booth 1103 and would love to show you what we have been working on. Also... we have amazing tote bags, keychains, and stickers 😄 Hope to see you there! 🥳 #ACSAtlanta #SciComm #sciart #acs #chemistry
🤩 our new cover! The cover features the review on how liquid–liquid phase separation can boost #catalysis in both natural and engineered systems. In living cells, it creates flexible, membrane-free structures that improve control the surroundings and behavior of #enzymes.
💙 Our New Cover❤️ Inside the developed microdroplets, oxygen is reduced in a way that enables the formation of metal hydroxide materials with much lower energy input. This approach makes it easier to produce a wide range of high-performance catalysts for energy conversion and storage technologies.
❤️ My New Cover! Chen Du, Victoria Cotham and Shunhai Wang from @regeneron.com created a new automated measurement method that can precisely analyze these complex virus–antibody systems, helping scientists check their quality and composition more easily.
