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Rafeeque Mavoor
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🎨Scientific Illustrator, Founder at Scidart Academy scidart.com Helping researchers learn scientific illustration through live workshops. Join blender workshop -> blender.scidart.com 🎓 IISER TVM, IISER Pune, JoVE, Novo Nordisk ||
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 13
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!

These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.

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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · 9d
Join our new batch starting Thursday.
Register now: blender.scidart.com

Beginners are welcome to join.
No prior design knowledge needed.

Share the post and help us reach more researchers.

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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · 9d
love your work.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Sep 1
A simplified way to draw laser setup diagrams.

This has always been a real pain point, someone had to do it well.

Made for spectroscopy researchers.

If you’d like to try the beta version, drop me a DM.
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🌟Join us for two amazing workshops in Vienna (Sept 10–11) shorturl.at/cfB8S 🌟
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💼 'Career Heist strategies for researchers' with Gaurav Gandhi (Innovation & Research Collaboration Leader)
Sci-ROI Global Annual Meeting 2025
10th Annual Meeting 2025 A perfect networking event to explore Science and Research opportunities in India!
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Aug 15
I made a full tutorial here:
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhMh...
Create Stunning Research Graphics with Napkin AI 🎨
YouTube video by Scidart
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Aug 15
Ideal for researchers looking to simplify complex ideas and communicate effectively.

This tool will help you take your presentations to the next level!
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Aug 15
Simply import your text whether it’s a research paper,
PowerPoint, or Google Slide and Napkin AI will analyze the content

to generate professional, customizable visuals.

Adjust colors, fonts, layouts, and export
in formats like PPT, PDF, SVG, or PNG, perfect for enhancing your projects.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Aug 15
Transform your presentations with Napkin AI! 🎨
(full tutorial)

This free, fast, and easy-to-use tool helps researchers create stunning infographics, flowcharts, and illustrations in minutes.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Aug 12
If you are interested in building a startup of your own for academia

I am going to document behind the scenes of building ScidartAcademy scidart.com

An upskilling platform for scientists
I might win or fail

But certainly we will learn many exciting things together.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdEW...
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Aug 8
Successfully completed scientific illustration workshop for research scholars of MG university, Kottayam.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Jul 11
Created a 3D nanoparticle creator!
Trying to make 3D illustration for nanomaterials research as simple as possible. Will share more updates soon!
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Jul 7
New Tutorial!
Learn how to create Illustration of porous Nanoparticles using Blender.

Video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXjC...
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · Jul 6
Porous nanoparticle illustration!

Many of you were asking about how to create porous nanoparticle in 3D using Blender.

Porous silica nanoparticle for example.

Geometry Nodes in blender is the best solution for that.
Tutorial coming soon!
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 27
Thanks so much. Have been going through your blogs recently, great resource for us. How can I share the details pf this repositry with you? Email is okay?
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 27
We built something new for plant researchers!
A library of scientific icons of plants!

If you would like to get early access, fill this form: tinyurl.com/u3wvdts5

Kindly share the post and help us reach more researchers.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 16
Later, using spinning-disk confocal microscopy,
the team captures detailed 3D images at nanometer resolution.

Finally, deep learning algorithms automatically trace
neurons, synapses, and their connections.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 16
Tiny structures are physically stretched apart,
making them easier to see.

Then, they add fluorescent dyes or antibodies
to highlight key components.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 16
This preserves the tissue and adds chemical “handles”
to bind proteins to the gel.

Next, the brain is embedded in a jelly-like hydrogel,
which locks cellular structures in place.

After that, the gel is treated with heat and chemicals
to expand about 16× in every direction.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 16
In their latest Nature paper, they introduce LICONN
a method that uses gel expansion, fluorescent labeling, and AI.

Here’s how they do it:

They begin by perfusing mouse brains
with a solution containing hydrogel monomers.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 16
Yes!

Not a dream.
This is real. Powered by gel chemistry and AI.

Traditionally, you had to rely on electron microscopy to map the brain in such detail.

But now, the Danzl lab has changed that.

link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dense 4D nanoscale reconstruction of living brain tissue - Nature Methods
A combination of gentle stimulated emission depletion microscopy imaging and deep-learning-based improvements in signal-to-noise ratio enables high-resolution reconstruction of neuronal architecture i...
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 16
Brain mapping just got easier and cheaper!

Light microscope can now map the brain down to individual synapses!
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 16
Totally! Inkscape can do most of the job. If needed use Blender and GIMP. All are free to use!
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 15
Hi Robert, We have been trying to create a library of plant icons. Can I send you a message? Would love to hear suggestions in solving the pain points of finding icons of plants.
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 15
1) bioicons.com
2) bioart.niaid.nih.gov
3) scidarw.io
4) openscienceart.com
5) smart.servier.com
Bioicons - high quality science illustrations
Bioicons contains free science illustrations for biologists, chemists, machine learning under permissive CC0, CC BY or MIT License.
bioicons.com
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Rafeeque Mavoor @rafeeque.com · May 15
Whether you're using different gel types, stains, or imaging systems, GelGenie makes your analysis faster and easier,
no coding or AI knowledge needed.