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Make Your Figures Count

Your illustrations are a fingerprint of your entire research paper. It pays to learn the general principles of designing graphs and figures, which will help you present data persuasively in the smallest possible amount of space. This article describes some of the pioneering design principles of Edward Tufte and how you can use them to improve your graphics. How important are good illustrations?...

Preparing for Your Future as You Grow

Commissural axons cross the nervous system midline and connect to targets in the contralateral hemisphere. In this issue of Neuron, Michalski et al. (2013) demonstrate that synapses formed by ipsilaterally misrouted commissural axons exhibit defects in synapse maturation. Thus, midline crossing primes axons for subsequent synaptogenesis.

Preparing for Your Child's Sedation Visit.

A new service for preparing enhanced figures in IUCr journals

Visualization of data is one of the most powerful tools available to a scientist. In the biological structural sciences, the visual representation of three-dimensional molecular models often provides insights into biological function. Indeed, different representations (space-filling, trace or cartoon abstractions; colouration by atom species, amino-acid group or secondary structure, etc.) help ...

CDC's Drought Guidance: Your Public Health Resource for Understanding and Preparing for Drought in Your Community.

Are drought issues affecting your com­ munity, or could they affect your com­ munity in the future? CDC’s drought guidance, When Every Drop Counts, can help you understand how drought may impact public health in your community and how to prepare for it. Although many aspects and implications of drought have been well researched, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize tha...