Category: Molecular biology cartoons

The latest set of cartoons…

Today’s topics:  A viral attack, deviant plants and more synaptic dialogues…

Evolution continues to tinker with the plant world, producing variants that sometimes don’t work out…

2. SUNFLOWERS get their name from the way their heads track a luminous orb through the sky…

   

3. Bizarre forms of the Venus fly trap

4.  More synaptic dialogues

As usual, free for use by citing copyright 2018 by Russ Hodge, www.goodsciencewriting.wordpress.com

Another crazy cell animation

I call this one “Kaboom”: what goes wrong if the chromosomes stick together and can’t be pulled toward the centrosomes…?

Concept and illustrations copyright Russ Hodge

Free for use by citing “copyright 2018 by Russ Hodge, http://www.goodsciencewriting.wordpress.com”

A new series: Animations!

Today I’m starting a new series with animated cartoons – here are some animations of cell mitosis – when it works and when it doesn’t!

I’ve started a YouTube channel for these called “the Crazy Cell.” Please tell your friends. The normal rules apply: You can use these for presentations and so on by clearly citing “copyright 2018 by Russ Hodge, www.goodsciencewriting.wordpress.com”

  1. “Normal” mitosis

2. The “Cell rodeo” – when a chromosome steps out of line…

Stay tuned for more craziness tomorrow…

Long night of sciences on Saturday at the MDC in Berlin-Buch – come by for a visit

Dear friends,

Once again the MDC is participating in the Long Night of Sciences in Berlin, this Saturday, June 9, from 4-9 pm. Please come by and see my stand in the foyer of the MDCC. This year the theme is a new children’s book I have just written on the topic of evolution:

Charlie & Fitzroy
& the very strange bugs

a book about Evolution for kids

Every day Charlie and her pet beagle Fitzroy take a walk through the woods. One day they discover some strange bugs. By watching them over a few weeks, they discover the basic principles of evolution. Along the way they make friends with a strange old man with a long white beard…

I’d love to get feedback from scientists, teachers, kids, and especially anybody in the publishing business about the next steps in producing this book!