Microglia are tiny cells living in the brain and spinal cord, they crawl around looking for trouble and cleaning it up. At McGill University we studied microglia and made some time lapse movies to see how they move and how they acquire particles from the outside. In a recent manuscript we were asked to provide a graphic representation of the research, and after trying some things on photoshop I was not satisfied with the results so I made a watercolour painting. After scanning I combined the illustration with some photoshopped elements to create a final graphic. Below is a copy of the graphic draft, the final version has more text on it. This is not the first time my art has found its way into science. A brain-lesion being fixed illustration was included in a magazine on multiple sclerosis and a binary cell was included on the cover of a PhD thesis once at Karolinska institute. Watercolour 6 x 8 " cold press, 2017
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