IMMpress Volume 13 Issue 2 – The Art of Science
This issue's cover is a surrealistic digital collage celebrating the works of notable artist-scientists. Pieced together are the masterful creations of – Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Santiago Ramón y Cajal,...
Artistic Involvement in Scientific Breakthroughs
According to Pablo Picasso, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Art in its very nature does not provide an accurate depiction of reality. In fact, oftentimes, it...
Before Pictures
Cryo-electron microscopy, photon counting-computed tomography, quantum imaging – these are a few modern developments that have allowed scientists to capture microscopic details at ultra-resolution. Researchers today have a vast arsenal...
The Hardi Cinader Prize: Celebrating Graduate Students Crafting Scientific Breakthroughs with Artistry and Precision
The Hardi Cinader Prize is a well-recognized award for those in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. Each year, this award is given to a graduate student...
Painting and Science: What Photography and Impressionism Teach Us About Innovation
Before Photography: Painting as a Window to the World Before the invention of photography, painting was humanity’s most powerful visual storytelling tool. Whether capturing the grandeur of royal courts, recording...
An Immunologist’s Suite: How Dr. Gabriel Victora Composed a Life in B Cells
Science and art are often presented as a juxtaposition, the former delimited by rationality and objectivity, while the latter exposing abstract thought and subjectivity. But what if these realms harmonized?...
Bioart: when science and creativity join paths
Bioart is an art form that intertwines the beauty of art with biology, using live cells and unique chemical processes as a medium. This movement advances the traditional boundaries of...
The inseparable nature of art and science: Does the “Renaissance man” still exist today?
Science and art have co-existed as disciplines throughout human history. Both are manifestations of the human imagination and require a modicum of creativity and skill in observation. From intricate star-shaped...
Beyond Left and Right: The Neuroscience of Creativity and Logic
The human brain, with its elegant bilateral symmetry, has long been depicted as a battleground of opposites. On one side: the left hemisphere, logical, analytical, verbal. On the other: the...