Cover art for Zhang et al. (2024) amazing work on mTOR, inflammaging and longevity,
featured on the cover of the Nature Aging April (2024) issue.
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The cover image conceptualizes the link to inflammaging by depicting aged flies as confined to a jar (representing the nuclear localization of the Drosophila NFκB-like transcription factor Relish), emitting brighter light (representing upregulation of inflammatory mediators).
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From the sketched concept to the final illustration: