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The menstrual cycle on display
Here’s an innovative way of putting biomedicine on display:
As Vanessa (Street Anatomy) says,
the menstrual cycle has never looked so exciting! [...] Perfect for explaining the menstrual cycle for the first time to a young girl … or to a 26-year-old. I had no idea I went through a luteal lunacy!
Created by I Heart Guts!, “the brainchild of an anatomically obsessed illustrator who loves internal organs and all they do”.
Maybe the next generation of the classic biochemical pathways wall charts could learn a lesson or two — or better, I Heart Guts could make a version of:
(click here for a larger version)
23 Oct 2009 Thomas
[...] One of the wackiest things about the study of anatomy is how little we understand about the human body — even though we’re surrounded by bodies all day long. That said, there is plenty we do understand, and thanks to things like this biochemical pathways chart of our body’s chemical reactions, we can sorta kinda see what’s going on inside when we metabolize food. Amazingly, mind-blowingly cool! They need to come up with a chart detailing the biochemical pathways of falling in love. {Roche Applied Science via Corporeality} [...]