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The software that powers scientific illustration

The web-based tool BioRender has become a staple of biomedical research drawings.
  1. Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Cartoon showing person interacting with digital lines to form an atomic shape

Illustration by The Project Twins

Like many researchers, Rita Sattler is trained to conduct science, not to draw it. But papers still need writing — and illustrating. So, when the time came to document what her team had done for a journal article, Sattler did what her colleagues frequently do: she fired up PowerPoint.

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Nature 582, 137-138 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01404-7

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