Welcome! Here you can find posts from an ongoing project that communicates scientific and STEM concepts through comics. Science is too interesting and important to be left out of our imagination.

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Sources What are you made of?

Bull MJ, Plummer NT. Part 1: The Human Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease. Integr Med (Encinitas). 2014 Dec;13(6):17-22. PMID: 26770121; PMCID: PMC4566439.

Carabotti M, Scirocco A, Maselli MA, Severi C. The gut-brain axis: interactions between enteric microbiota, central and enteric nervous systems. Ann Gastroenterol. 2015 Apr-Jun;28(2):203-209. Erratum in: Ann Gastroenterol. 2016 Apr-Jun;29(2):240. PMID: 25830558; PMCID: PMC4367209.

Sender R, Fuchs S, Milo R. Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body. PLoS Biol. 2016 Aug 19;14(8):e1002533. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002533. PMID: 27541692; PMCID: PMC4991899.

Zhou X, Shen X, Johnson J ...
Longitudinal profiling of the microbiome at four body sites reveals core stability and individualized dynamics during health and diseaseCell Host & Microbe, 2024; 32, 506-526.e9

https://nigms.nih.gov/biobeat/2024/09/cells-by-the-numbers-2

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Sources What is Mitochondrial DNA? :

Cooper, G.M , Hausman, R.E (2009) The cell: a molecular approach (5th ed.), Sinauer

Kremer LS, Golder Z, Barton-Owen T, Papadea P, Koolmeister C, Chinnery PF, Larsson NG. The bottleneck for maternal transmission of mtDNA is linked to purifying selection by autophagy. Sci Adv. 2025 Nov 14;11(46):eaea4660. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aea4660. Epub 2025 Nov 12. PMID: 41223274; PMCID: PMC12609065.(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41223274/)

Rius R, Cowley M, Riley L . Biparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in humans is not a common phenomenon Genetics in Medicine, 21, 2823-2826. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31171843/)

Source Youtube hela dagen:

MIT 7.01SC Fundamentals of Biology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzY0MWEEE6U&list=PLF83B8D8C87426E44)

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Sources What is a virus really?: 

Goulding, J. (2025, January 30). BiteSized Immunology: Pathogens & Disease. https://www.immunology.org/public-information/bitesized-immunology/pathogens-disease/virus-replication

Jackson, C.B., Farzan, M., Chen, B. et al. Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 23, 3–20 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-021-00418-x

J. Shang,Y. Wan,C. Luo,G. Ye,Q. Geng,A. Auerbach, & F. Li,  Cell entry mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 117 (21) 11727-11734, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003138117 (2020).

Sketches from ongoing projects (2026)