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When Jennifer Fairman started to work on drawing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, she wanted to make it more approachable. “When you look at the virus, it’s really beautiful. The geometry of it is beautiful,” says the medical illustrator, who works with institutions including the National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “I think I wanted to just highlight that.” She ended up choosing to paint in blues, greens, and purples, colors that would intrigue people.
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Veronica Falconieri Hays, an illustrator who does work for companies like Genentech and researchers at Oxford University, took a different approach when designing images for