Meet identical twins, Amber and Blue, and their lovable tour guide, Chirp. Together these three are going on an epic quest to find – and understand – DNA. Targeted for an audience 11 + is widely used in schools as accompaniment to science classes. 

The book has been published in English, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. 

Everything is going well for Pol the polymerase, living their best life in Cell Town, until the day they find some mysterious bases on the DNA they have to duplicate. Based on the research of the Aitken lab at MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge, this comic introduces the topics of DNA duplication, DNA damage, lesion segregation and multiallelism. The production of this comic was supported by Dr Claudia Arnedo Pac & Dr Sarah Aitken.

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Ray, Ellis and Argus, explorers of foreign lands, are about to go on a well deserved holiday, when the air purifier of the ship they are travelling on stops working. They have to jump on a new mission: finding out what went wrong, and how to prevent it from happening again. They will develop a technique very similar to the work and techniques used by the Mennella lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge. The production of this comic was supported by Odara Medagedara.

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Bacterial cells, pollen, protein clumps: nothing escapes the watchful eye of Mac, the pleural space macrophage. He can even handle long fibres, he's truly a champion. But what's this rumour spreading among the mesothelial cells? A different fibre that’s extremely long and seems indestructible? Will Mac be able to take care of it? This comic is based on the research of the MacFarlane lab and the Fibre Toxicity programme. The production of this comic was supported by Emily Self and David O'Loughlin.

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A series of 30 science comics published by Mondadori Scuola on the opening pages for each chapter of a Biology textbook. Each strip introduces the key themes of the chapter.

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In recent decades, the world of biology has been profoundly changed by the discovery of various types of small RNAs capable of influencing the functioning of cells and organisms. From applications in agriculture to the diagnosis of certain diseases, understanding how these mechanisms work could be very important for humanity.

This 10 pages article was published on La Revue magazine, issue #12.