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Digital art reveals cellular secrets with Marzia Munafò
Marzia Munafò is a molecular biologist currently studying inter-generational
inheritance in the mouse by analysing epigenetics - which is the study of how our behaviours and environment can change how genes work. She revisited her lifelong love of art during her PhD, while merging her scientific knowledge with her artistic and digital illustrative skills. Marzia’s digital SciArt is rather unconventional, in the unique, imaginative and metaphorical ways her images are presented. Find out for yourself in the following pages!
Above: “Restriction of SARS-CoV-2 replication by targeting programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting.” A study published in PNAS identified Merafloxacin as a pan-betacoronavirus programmed -1 ribosomal frameshift inhibitor. In the illustration, ribosomes move like pieces on a board game (the viral ORF sequence) where Merafloxacin acts as a roadblock for translation.
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