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Amber and Blue and the hunt for DNA
Amber and Blue and the hunt for DNA
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.
MRC Toxicology Unit comics
MRC Toxicology Unit comics
A series of comics I'm writing for the MRC Toxicology Unit in Cambridge. The comics are available for free on their website in English and in Italian.
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, 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.
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.
The production of this comic was supported by Odara Medagedara.
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.
La Revue
La Revue
Comics I wrote for La Revue magazine, an Italian graphic journalism magazine
Perché siamo Sapiens?
Perché siamo Sapiens?
This comic is inspired by the scientific research project Starch4Sapiens which aims to analyse and compare the biological and behavioural changes that made possible the effective metabolisation of starch-rich food that occurred in Eurasia with the arrival of Homo Sapiens. This project was realised collaboratively by the research teams of Silvana Condemi (Aix Marseille University ), Alessandra Carbone (Sorbonne University) e Laura Longo (Ca’ Foscari University).
This 10 pages article was published on La Revue magazine, issue #9.
RNA da Nobel
RNA da Nobel
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.
Biologia – Indagine sulla vita
Biologia – Indagine sulla vita
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.
More comic strips here (available just in Italian)
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