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As a kid, Molly Mendoza loved to watch cartoons such as Sailor Moon and Speed Racer and to read Japanese comics. “From a really young age I wanted to tell stories with pictures,” she recalls. She didn’t really consider making a career out of it, though, until her high school art teachers and college professors told her she had talent. With their encouragement, she decided to pursue a bachelor’s of fine arts degree at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. After graduating in the winter of 2014, Mendoza went straight into freelancing, creating banner images for different tutorials within the creative suite of Adobe, as well as illustrating for publications such as Nautilus and The Scientist. In May 2015, her work graced the cover of The Scientist’s special issue on HIV. Here, she illustrates how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming masses of data on cancer into ...