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.
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!
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.
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.
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 cover in Advanced Functional Materials! 🤖🩸✨
Here we showed a tiny "soft" #robot, developed by Hakan Ceylan from Mayo Clinic Research. The robot is guided by #magnets from outside the body, traveling through a blood vessel to deliver treatment exactly where it's needed and without any harm.
💜 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....
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...
💙 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.
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...
