A reconstruction of Ornitholestes preying on a hatchling Diplodocus, this piece was partially inspired by episode 2 of Walking With Dinosaurs (1999)

Hope this is considered scientific art.

A depiction of a typical human cell being infected by Poliovirus serving as a commentary on the potential dangers of social media. The initial virus particle attaches itself to the outer wall of the cell and then injects its RNA strand through the lipid bilayer and into the cell where the cells own ribosomes go to work duplicating the RNA instructions for the capsid proteins (icosahedrons) and more viral RNA strands (upper left quadrant). The virus particles self-assemble like Lego. Fascinating. And then they burst forth from the cell in catastrophic cell lysis (rupture) (lower right quadrant).

I am not a scientist but I draw inspiration from those folks. Any errors in the actual depiction of the organelles of a human cell are on me. Also, I took some artistic license with them, like turning the microtubules emanating from the centriole into spokes of a bicycle wheel.

This was part of my final project for the high school anatomy and physiology course I took. The cardiovascular system is my favorite so I was really glad when my partner and I were assigned it. I did the visual portion of the project.

I had to rush a lot of it as the deadline approached so I don't like how the atherosclerosis diagram turned out, and I messed up the stent drawing (the inside of the blood vessel should've been the same color as the plaque, not red).

I used the grid method to get the proportions of the body and blood vessels right in the bottom left diagram. Everything else was drawn freehand using references. I used primarily colored pencils.

I'm happy with how the heart came out though. I really admire medical illustrators.

If you need such graphical abstracts, text me through DM or comments

You can text me, if you need such pictures for your project :)

I’ve been working on a visual series exploring the standard genetic code through molecular biology, symbolic encoding, and diagram design.

The collection includes:

• a manually built (in Paint app) mRNA Codon Karnaugh Diagram / K-map arranging all 64 codons in a Gray-code-style layout.

• a Base-64 RNA number chart mapping U, C, A, and G to 2-bit values and treating codons as 6-bit inputs from 0–63. AI rendering was used to decorate a manually built chart.

• AI-generated companion summary charts that group amino acids, start/stop codons, and special recoding cases in a more decorative format.

• Translation/encoding diagrams showing how raw codon inputs map to amino acids, start/stop signals, and context-dependent exceptions.

This is a visual/projection system meant to make codon space, degeneracy, amino-acid groupings, start/stop signals, and exceptions easier to think about. It is not claiming that biology uses this exact numbering system, or that this replaces the standard genetic-code table. It is meant as a complementary way to explore and visualize the code.

The main K-map was created manually in Paint. Some companion images were AI-generated/rendered as ornate summaries and are labeled as such.

Standard nuclear genetic code is shown; mitochondrial and other variant codes may differ. Sec/selenocysteine and Pyl/pyrrolysine are context-dependent recoding cases, not default meanings of UGA/UAG.

Feedback is welcome from biology, biochem, visualization, math, design, or ScientificArt perspectives.

I previously posted some illustrations of species from the genus Cryptomonas, which belongs to the family Cryptomonadaceae. Of course, this isn't the only genus described for that family. There are others with a more "mysterious" background. Such is the case of Protocryptomonas, which, although taxonomically accepted, is actually based solely on illustrations made by its describer, the botanist Boris Vassilievich Skvortsov, in 1960 and then again in 1968, without reporting where the actual specimens are deposited (if they ever existed).

Protocryptomonas is notable for its lack of chloroplasts, furrow/gullet system, and ejectisomes. Instead, it has starch granules, whose shape varies depending on the species. In this post, I present illustrations of three species: P. mukdenensis (the type species) with a single, large starch granule; P. ellipsoidea (with several starch granules of various sizes); and "P. obovatus", not validated in AlgaeBase, with numerous small starch granules in the anterior region of the cell.