GeneticsAugust 1, 2022
See How Scientists Put Together the Complete Human Genome
For the first time, researchers have sequenced all 3,117,275,501 bases of our genetic code
Stories by Martin Krzywinski
Martin Krzywinski is a staff scientist at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center.
Public HealthJune 1, 2020
Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread
Globe-trotting humans were the culprits
The SciencesDecember 23, 2017
In Silico Flurries
Computing a world of snowflakes
The SciencesDecember 7, 2015
The Evolution of a Scientific American Infographic: Secret Life in Household Dust
Designers Martin Krzywinski and Barbara Jeannie Hunnicutt provide a peek behind the scenes, and explain how they developed a data visualization based on bacterial genome information derived from dust.
EvolutionAugust 19, 2014
Similarities Between Human and Chimp Genomes Revealed by Hilbert Curve
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Martin Krzywinski, a contributing artist who designed the Graphic Science illustration in the September issue of Scientific American magazine.