Beautiful paintings of neurons

That's no dandelion. It's a painted close-up of a slice of human hippocampus. Jessica Palmer at the Bioephemera blog introduced me to the gorgeous artwork of neuroscience grad student and painter Greg Dunn. His images of different neurons are really lovely. And you can buy prints.

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my favorite science artist is David Goodsell, who makes incredibly intricate and beautiful watercolor paintings of various proteins and organelles and cellular biology. i found a painting of his in a biology textbook and it blew me away.

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