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Yura Stefanov

@stefych.bsky.social

Biomedical animator, scriptwriter, and director. Former molecular biologist, CSO at Visual Science, and a home cook. Based in Stockholm. https://visual-science.com/

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As a person who participated in the protests that failed I have to say that these people better be ready to show up when this will really matter in 3,5 years from now. Show up, stand, and not go away.

19.10.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a biomedical illustrator, I don't like Tregs because you never know how to color-code them. Like, are they good? Are they bad? Are they immunity, or part of TME? Always complex color-coding decisions that end up in brown-ish green in 90% of cases.

07.10.2025 07:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is so cool. Sperm whales are probably the most amaizing animals on Earth.

25.09.2025 08:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Painting "Motherland listens" by Vasya Lozhkin

Painting "Motherland listens" by Vasya Lozhkin

02.09.2025 08:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have to admit, even brilliant Western actors are not very good in expressing what is called a "resting slavic face".

01.09.2025 11:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Circle Pharma platform MoA animation This is "Circle Pharma platform MoA animation" by Visual Science on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Full video: vimeo.com/1114225349?s...

29.08.2025 12:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Replication fork in S-phase with and without functional E2F and cyclin/CDK complexes

Replication fork in S-phase with and without functional E2F and cyclin/CDK complexes

Itโ€™s great when you get the chance to model a complete, functioning eukaryotic replication fork while working on a commercial project.

29.08.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a great reference for 3D modeling.

26.06.2025 06:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

While I agree that the pups aren't true dire wolves, I still find this to be exciting and interesting news. I enjoyed working with the Colossal team on the short animations, which they featured on their website and in the video about the project.

08.04.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pluto is about to eclipse Sun, submerging most of Charon in darkness with only source of light being stars and glowing ring of Pluto's blue atmosphere.
#pluto #astronomy #space #art

17.11.2024 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 240    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I cried when I first listened to Khlyvnyuk singing this song. A man of amazing talent and courage. I was a fan of his band Boombox some 15 years ago. The Kiffness is ok, but I wouldnโ€™t put it as the song released by him. He just rode the wave of the moment. The tragic and horrible moment.

07.03.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He is missed. A true hero.

16.02.2025 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[Herpetology โ€ข 2025] <i>Lycodon poyarkovi</i> โ€ข A New Species of <i>Lycodon</i><small><small> Fitzinger, 1826</small> (Serpentes: Colubridae)</small> from the Northern part of the Truong Son Mountains... Lycodon poyarkoviย  ย Nguyen &ย  Vogel, ย 2025ย  Poyarkovโ€™s Big-tooth Snake |ย  DOI:ย  doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5570.3.3 ย  Rแบฏn khuyแบฟt Trฦฐแปng sฦกnย ...

Today I learned that a newly discovered snake species was named after my friend and former university classmate, Nick Poyarkov. Welcome, Lycodon poyarkovi sp. nov.

novataxa.blogspot.com/2025/01/lyco...

20.01.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Amazing!

18.01.2025 14:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.

09.01.2025 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 205    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Nice!

29.12.2024 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same in Stockholm.

29.12.2024 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks! Hi @aemonten.bsky.social, we do logos and would be happy to discuss your project if you might be interested in working with an agency, not just an individual artist.

23.12.2024 09:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Atsena Therapeutics โ€” Laterally spreading AAV.SPR vector. 3D MoA animation - Visual Science We visualize scientific breakthroughs with painstaking accuracy for Nobel laureates, the Nature journal, and early-stage and Fortune 500 companies

More info about this project from a couple of years ago: visual-science.com/projects/ats...

20.12.2024 10:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I enjoy #FluorescenceFriday but don't have much to share because we arenโ€™t microscopists. However, we tried to imitate fluorescence images in a couple of projects.

20.12.2024 10:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wrote 15 different scripts in about a couple of weeks mostly on hematology, oncology, and NGS. Thatโ€™s on top of managing several projects that are already in production. Iโ€™m exhausted and very much looking forward to holidays already.

17.12.2024 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OpenOrganelle is a repo of #CellBiology data, segmented from electron #microscopy at #HHMIJanelia by Aubrey Weigel and the CellMap team, the Saalfeld lab ( @herrsaalffeld.sky.social) and the Hess lab. Here's a macrophage cell, rendered with #Blender driven by neuVid (helpful for more than neurons).

09.12.2024 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heja Sverige!

05.12.2024 21:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New stuff from WEHI team!

04.12.2024 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But then I realized it all depends on how you model the scene and approach the lookdev:) Or, in David Goodsell's case, just draw it by hand, which is absolutely astonishing.

02.12.2024 11:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At first, I found this idea controversial, if not absurd, because I had always considered the beauty of molecules to be akin to the beauty of trees, flowers, and landscapesโ€”chaotic, somewhat 'fractal,' and disordered.

02.12.2024 11:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This beautiful PDB Molecule of the Month image reminds me of the book Molecular Aesthetics, where I came across a thought about the beauty of symmetrical molecular structures compared to disordered ones.

02.12.2024 11:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh wow.

29.11.2024 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hmmm, I think now I also celebrate (technically, not THAT Holliday junction, but close):

vimeo.com/923512124?sh...

29.11.2024 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cancer cells impair monocyte-mediated T cell stimulation to evade immunity - Nature Inflammatory monocytes are identified as important players in Tโ€‰cell restimulation in the tumour microenvironment.

The link in the first post is broken, btw, so: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

28.11.2024 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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