?Excuse me, but I have to ask, is that a Golgi body on your scarf?? That was the question from the biology student of a teacher who attended the most recent meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. And because the teacher was wearing a scarf fashioned by electron microscopist Eve Reaven, the answer was yes.
Reaven has been making scarves and ties based on subcellular structures such as mitochondria, Golgi bodies, the endoplasmic reticulum, hormone secretory granules, actin filaments, and centrioles since 1999. ?I had been working with a few EM designs on my computer, thinking that scarves would be a reasonable way to display such patterns, but found that local manufacturers thought the patterns too complex for screen printing,? says Reaven.
Then, her husband, Gerald Reaven, a diabetes researcher at Stanford University, was invited by one of his postdocs to South Korea to give ...
