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AlphaFold and Molecular Visualization
AlphaFold inspired estrogen receptor illustration What is AlphaFold? Predicting protein structures based on their amino acid sequence has been a scientific dream for decades. AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence (AI) system…
Falconieri Visuals wins AMI Award
Falconieri Visuals' artwork of NLRP3 inflammasome assembly won an Award of Merit in the prestigious Association of Medical Illustrators 2021 Salon. See it and other winners here: AMI 2021 Salon…
WIRED: In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible
Veronica Falconieri Hays was interviewed by WIRED for the article In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible. Read her and fellow medical illustrators' takes on how to make medical…
Falconieri Visuals on the Cover of Nature Materials
Falconieri Visuals artwork of a platinum-gold catalyst studied by the Argonne National Lab's Stamenkovic lab is on the cover of the November 2020 Nature Materials Issue. Check it out here:…
Using PDB Structures to Visualize Science
Veronica Falconieri Hays wrote about medical illustraiton and the use of molecular structures like those found in the Protein Data Bank in her work for the fall Education Corner column…
Interactive Guide to the Coronavirus
Veronica Falconieri Hays' illustrations of SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) biology and virion 3D model were adapted by the Scientific American team for an interactive online article, Inside the Coronavirus. Dive in here:…
How I Built a 3-D Model of the Coronavirus for Scientific American
Veronica Falconieri Hays wrote about her research and model building process for the illustration of the coronavirus for the cover of July 2020's Scientific American. You can find her complete…
A Visual Guide to the Coronavirus
Veronica Falconieri Hays recently illustrated the feature article A Visual Guide to the Coronavirus for the July 2020 issue of Scientific American. Catch the complete online version here: A Visual…