Art sales fund science

摘要

Sales of stylized scientific images, including micrographs of human-heart and mouse-brain cells, are helping to pay for early-career researchers to travel. Proceeds from an art fair and website (go.nature.com/ aakuwa) have raised some US$30,000 so far, enough to send 60 graduate students and postdocs from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to conferences. And there is another benefit: "We started this as a fund-raiser, but it turns out to be an awesome public-outreach tool," says Deborah Gumucio, founder of the Michigan Center for Organogenesis, which runs the Bio-Artography project. "People come into our fair booth and we can talk to them about pluripotent stem cells."