🤖 Can you submit an AI-generated image to a scientific journal?
Not always - and the rules depend heavily on the journal.
In this article we looked at how journals handle AI-generated visuals.
www.cell.com/matter/abstr...
Curious to hear your thoughts.
#ScientificPublishing #AI #SciArt

🐛On the cover: simple yellow mealworm larva (juvenile stage of the beetle) inspired Monika Gupta and Goran Stojanovic to design biodegradable electronic substrates!

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🧭 Our new cover shows how #hydrogel materials can be tuned by balancing two components, illustrated as fluid weights on a clock controlled by a researcher’s hand. By adjusting the ratio of oxidized and non-oxidized #hyaluronan, the study creates hydrogels with controlled mechanical properties.

My New Cover for @ScienceTM 🧬🤩

The cover illustrates a #CART cell (blue) recognizing and attacking a malignant B cell (pink) with a specific receptor called IGHV4-34. By targeting only these harmful cells, the therapy aims to avoid wiping out the entire B-cell population.

This week I had the honor of giving my first in-person talk at Columbia University on how researchers can improve the design of scientific figures and covers.

I’m very grateful to Dr. Dmitri Basov for the kind invitation and to everyone who attended, asked questions,and joined the discussion.

✨ 🟪 Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) - crystal-like materials full of tiny pores that can trap hydrogen molecules like nanoscale storage tanks.
The cover visualizes hydrogen molecules flowing into the intricate MOF lattice.

✨ New Cover! Hurray✨

This cover features a new way of portable inhaled nitric oxide delivery designed to make therapy of #cystic_fibrosis safer and more accessible 🫁 I illustrated released NO acting against P. aeruginosa biofilms, a bacterial burden in cystic fibrosis patients.

Our customers and the #coverarts we created for them 🥰
We are so delighted to receive photos of our customers holding the images we created for them 💙 For each project, we order metal prints of the cover artwork so they can showcase it in their lab or office to celebrate their brilliant publications

🐭 🧬 🧫 New cover for Cell Reports Methods! Yeeey!

Ori Bar-Nur team from ETH Zürich established fibroblast-reprogrammed iPSCs from the African pygmy mouse 🐭 and demonstrate the generation of chimeras between this tiny mouse🐀 and laboratory house mouse🐁 to study embryogenesis logics better.

If you are tired of generic illustrations, we design custom #visual_elements to help you move beyond generic visuals and develop a recognizable style that adds individuality and character to your work and make your #presentations, grant #applications, and #papers truly stand out and spark attention!

✨Self-illuminating biosensor💡

I created this image for a remarkable paper by EPFL engineers 🫶
The team developed the first #biosensor that produces its own #light, removing the need for bulky external light sources. This new device can detect extremely small amounts of biomolecules (picograms!).

❓Do Journals Have a Preferred Style for Cover Art?
I would say “yes”😊 (even if it’s not always explicitly stated). Let’s compare two #covers for Energy & Fuels: though the topics, colors, and visual elements differ, both covers share a similar #visual_language that aligns with journal’s aesthetic.

🤩 Whoa! Our image is on the Nature Magazine #Neuroscience cover! 🧠

🎨 Cover 🎨 illustrates new #optogenetics method PRIME as a path through an expansive “neural forest.” Researchers are carefully crawling through the forest and using flashlights (a metaphor for optogenetic neuronal control).

✨My traditional #SundayCover: Octopus-Catalyst 🐙⚗️

I showed how a new ruthenium-POP pincer #catalyst works with multiple components at once, much like the tentacles of an octopus, to upgrade ethanol into butanol, which is a promising biofuel that could replace gasoline⛽

New Cover fr American Chemical Society☀️🔬
This cover shows the #photoelectrocatalytic interface in action: sunlight drives chemical reactions at the surface of a material. It captures a cross-section of the semiconductor–electrolyte interface showing how light-generated charges power transformations.

New image for Forbes!🤩🆕🧑‍⚕️

Have you ever asked ChatGPT a medical advice? I think the majority would say yes.
OpenAI issued a new mode: #ChatGPTHealth. The company introduced this service earlier this week, responding, as it claims, to over 230 million people chatting with GPT about health each week.

New image for Forbes!🤩🆕🧑‍⚕️

Have you ever asked ChatGPT a medical advice? I think the majority would say yes.
OpenAI issued a new mode: #ChatGPTHealth. The company introduced this service earlier this week, responding, as it claims, to over 230 million people chatting with GPT about health each week.

#NotCoverThursday: Our Scientific Figures🩻
Our design studio is well known for making beautiful scientific #covers, but we also love creating compelling visuals and #figures for papers, reviews, grant proposals, presentations, and more!🧪🧬

✨ My new cover for Advanced Optical Materials!

The study presents a tiny #microgripper at the tip of an #optical_fiber, with soft “fingers” that move when light shines on them. The gripper can gently pick up and move microscopic objects, for example microorganisms🦠

💜 Quantum Processor Made Using Phosphorus Atoms in Silicon ⚛️ 💻

Silicon Quantum Computing has shown exceptional quality and performance across a multi-qubit, multi-register architecture, with atomic qubits placed in pure silicon – a solid-state architecture that is fit to match the challenge ahead!

✨Our image is on the cover of Matter!

🤖We depicted a futuristic #soft_robotic gripper delicately lifting a glowing sphere, like a high-tech claw machine. The inset shows the material’s finely engineered internal structure: the textured network that gives the robot its strength and responsiveness.

🦷✨ Sunday morning with my new cover:
Sherif Elsharkawy and Sara Gamea present a water-based keratin film that self-assembles into a fibrous, hierarchical network and can restore both the appearance and the mechanical properties of early enamel lesions.

🦃🫂 Today is Thanksgiving Day, and I want to thank our customers - brilliant scientists and incredibly kind and creative people - for believing in my studio and in me! ♥️

Here are a few photos of our wonderful customers and the metal prints of their cover artworks we sent them to say "thank you"🫶

🦷✨This study introduced #CalBots, magnetically guided #nanorobots that can travel deep into dentinal tubules and create #bioceramic plugs that help block sensitivity❣️ Their potential doesn’t stop with teeth! This strategy could eventually support other types of hard-tissue repair as well.

🚨My new cover for #ACSNano!

I designed the artwork to capture the moment when multiple colorful light beams strike a single-layer material. The glowing waves rising from the surface represent the newly generated twisted light 💡

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💃🕺 Our cover shows how cancer cells communicate with their surroundings: non-malignant cells and the ECM. Just like dancers responding to different rhythms, cells in the tumor microenvironment react to a mix of signals: some signals encourage inflammation and others promote suppression.

🧬DNA Origami for Cancer Cell Imaging + My Halloween-ish Artistic Touch 🎃

These structures, called #DNAorigami nanocomplexes can enter #cancer cells more easily than normal cells. Scientists used this trick to send these origami-molecules into the cancer cells to differentiate them more precisely.

🌟Our new cover for #CellReportsMedicine features a study by Eloy Santos Pujol et al. diving deep into the biology of one of the world’s oldest living #supercentenarians!

🔗 DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102368

⚗️ Here we depicted a 17th-century #plague_doctor known for his beaked mask filled with aromatic herb. We put a modern syringe with mRNA vaccine in doctor's hands. Beside him stands a patient now protected against the deadly #infection. That is so fascinating how treatments and vaccines have evolved!

#SundayCover: Chemical system control itself with a simple handshake! 🤝

The @pappasgroup.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de developed a new feedback mechanism for controlling non-equilibrium systems based on chirality.