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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE COVER

MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION

Client:

Michael Ward (NIH/NINDS)

Project description:

Image is an artistic metaphor for how RNA granules (water droplets) are indirectly transported along microtubule networks (branch).

Manuscript title:

RNA transport and local translation in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease
Nature Neuroscience. 2021 May; 24(5)
PMID: 33510479
PubMed
Illustrator:Ethan Tyler