Molecular Visualization of DNA - Created by Drew Berry of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

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There is a whole genre and cottage industry that has developed around visualizing and explaining the natural phenomenon of DNA replication. People are fascinated with this area of science, just as they are fascinated with the exploration of outer-space and the visualizations of the birth of the universe - the big bang. So it is not unusual that popular medical illustrations and animations would follow aesthetically the tradition of the visualization of outer-space. Both traditions draw from the Romantics of the 19th century and popular fantasy images.

Thomas Design