Avesta Rastan

Thank you!! Ah I know, it's still so crazy to me 🤩🙈

The link to the journal: www.nature.com/nature/volum...

A Nature journal cover design that shows a plate with cutlery, but the plate is a cancer cell.

Process work for the cover design

My second cover illustration published this week, and it's in THE Nature! 🤯 It features brilliant research from Dr. Raphael Morscher and Sarah Cherkaoui at U Zurich that shows how a depleted diet can halt protein translation in a pediatric neuroblastoma.

#scicomm #sciart #nature #cancer

Here's the link: www.cell.com/issue/S1074-...

An illustration for the journal, Immunity, that represents immune and cancer cells as fish in a cellular ocean.

Process work for the cover design

New illustration published in Immunity this week! 🫧🐟 This visual metaphor highlights research from the Pereira Lab at Lund University. They found transcription factor combinations that reprogram cancer cells to become immune cells, which then have an anti-cancer effect.

#sciart #scicomm #immunity

📢 New in @ImmunityCP: We have mapped the transcription factor “routes” that program two dendritic cell subsets opening paths for personalized #cancer #immunotherapy. Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.im...
Here is a summary of what we discovered 🧵:
Illustration by @azuravesta.bsky.social

A crow perched on a stump in a pine forest covered in dense foliage

A Forest raven perched on a broken branch

A dense forest environment with a river running through the middle

A fox crawling between some dense forest floor foliage.

Hey #PortfolioDay

I'm Aled, I'm a Welsh freelance illustrator and concept artist. I like to illustrate nature, wildlife and anything Welsh! ✨

I think this is the perfect opportunity to show off my new website!

🌐 aledthompson.com
📧 al98thompson@gmail.com

An infographic about how to make a native garden, including an example based in Toronto, Canada

Our latest infographic illustrates how to make a native garden pit stop for pollinators! This was a collaboration between myself and Brittany Cheung (www.bcheungbiomedicalillustration.com)

Full infographic here: www.biophile.media/post/native-...

#nativegarden #scicomm #sciart #biodiversity

Biophile Media Biophile Media is a digital platform dedicated to sharing educational visual media that simplifies research at the intersection of health, science, and climate. Our goal is to help you make informed l...

Over the past several months I've been working on bringing this idea to life, and I'm excited to finally share Biophile Media — an online platform that transforms #science, #health, and #climate research into understandable and inspiring visual stories!

Check it out here: www.biophile.media

Thanks Joana! 😊

✅ Career goal complete! Excited to say my illustration was selected for the Feb issue of Nature Neuroscience! It was an absolute pleasure working with cutting edge researchers to visualize their study on neural activity in a playful, metaphorical way.

#sciart #medcomms #neuroscience

Thank you for the kind words! I totally lucked out in stumbling upon this career (I would have gone into neuroscience research otherwise). Getting to work with scientists to visualize their work is pretty awesome :)

Here's a zoomed in view looking at the fluid flow to and from a single nephron — the functional unit of the kidney!

This was a freelance project done for a medical device company that targets lymphatics to treat ADHF 🫀

#scicomm #sciart #nephron #anatomy

Here's an animation I made that shows fluid flow in/out of the kidneys, with emphasis on the lymphatics since they are often left out of anatomical illustrations:

➡️ Fluid enters via the renal artery
⬅️ Fluid exits via the renal vein, lymphatics, and as urine

#scicomm #sciart #kidney #anatomy

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Thanks Emily! 😊

A 2-part infographic series about the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). The first part defines the SDOH and the second part provides a guideline for addressing them in healthcare practices.

Excited to say this infographic I helped create for Real Chemistry has been translated into Spanish!

This 2-part #infographic breaks down what the Social Determinants of Health are and how healthcare providers can address them. PDFs available here: azuravesta.com/the-sdoh

#SciArt #SciComm #SDOH

Books display: Neurocomic, The Senses, Science Tarot, Cervellopoli, Ramon Non Ha Sonno

People always tell me I don't do enough promotion for my books so here is a conveniently timed #throwbackthursday of everything I ever published!

If you want to indulge in seasonal shopping you can find links for all on matteofarinella.com

#graphicscience #comics #neuroscience #scicomm #sciart

That's awesome to hear! A big part of the reason I went into medical illustration was seeing cool science art when I was younger myself

Your murals are gorgeous! They have a lovely organic flow to them

A sketch of nephrons (the structure that filters blood in the kidneys) from a dramatic bird's eye view

POV: you're skydiving through a forest of nephrons (the structure that filters blood in the kidneys)

Biophile Media Biophile Media is an online platform for data-driven visuals and creative storytelling that demystify scientific research at the intersection of climate and health. Our aim is to widely share knowledg...

If you scroll to the bottom of this website and click the image, you can find a higher resolution version: www.biophile.media

Nice to meet you! Sounds like we have lots of interests in common. I'm also super into sci-fi (3 body problem, fifth season, Dune to name a few)

Wow! Can't believe there's 1,000+ of you following me here in just under 10 days. I can't keep up with the notifs, and I'd love to learn more about what you all do so please feel free to introduce yourself in the comments!

And if we've met irl, say hi so I can follow you back 😊

Wow! Can't believe there's 1,000+ of you following me here in just under 10 days. I can't keep up with the notifs, and I'd love to learn more about what you all do so please feel free to introduce yourself in the comments!

And if we've met irl, say hi so I can follow you back 😊

Ou that's a great example! Totally true. It's only when these new practices become the norm that we can actually shift to a future with less plastic. People will usually pick convenience over what's actually better for the environment, so we have to make the better options more convenient

Ou that's a great example! Totally true. It's only when these new practices become the norm that we can actually shift to a future with less plastic. People will usually pick convenience over what's actually better for the environment, so we have to make the better options more convenient

Good to know, thanks! Haha yes they truly have evolved some superpowers, they are the best

Biophile Media Biophile Media is an online platform for data-driven visuals and creative storytelling that demystify scientific research at the intersection of climate and health. Our aim is to widely share knowledg...

I realize the text isn't legible, so you can find a higher-res version on my website (which is very much still in the works): www.biophile.media

Stay tuned for more visual media at the intersection of climate x health!

A list of ways people can take action to address microplastics pollution

Of course, we can't present the problem without proposing some #climateaction! Here's the CTA section of the infographic: