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Meet the scientist painter who turns deadly viruses into beautiful works of art

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David Goodsell packs his watercolors of HIV, Ebola, and Zika viruses with realistic details. DAVID GOODSELL (CC-BY-4.0)

HIV, Ebola, and Zika are ugly, nasty viruses. David Goodsell makes them look beautiful, even alluring. And the unusual precision of his depictions is driven by science—some of it his own research.

Goodsell is a structural biologist at Scripps Research in San Diego, California, and he paints watercolors of viruses and cells with exacting scientific specifications. Many scientists do artwork on the side, but Goodsell’s paintings are tightly linked to his own studies of the molecules that form cells and pathogens. Read More

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