Pathology Captures
A celebration of lab-inspired art from around the globe
For our ninth annual image issue, we were once again awed by the submissions we received. Not only have we seen some beautiful histopathology slides, but also creations in mediums ranging from paintings and drawings, to cross-stitch and stained glass.
Below, you can find a plethora of these creations from The Pathologist and #pathart community that perfectly showcases the excitement, skill, and creativity that our field has to offer.
Interested in getting your #pathart creations into a future edition of The Pathologist? Share your work with us to feature as our next image of the month!
Leonie Schön
Credit: Leonie Schön, Lamellipodium Art.
Becki Hiscocks
Credit: Becki Hiscocks, Freelance Illustrator, Medical Artists’ Education Trust, Medical Artists Association, Bristol, UK.
Ziad El-Zaatari
Credit: Ziad El-Zaatari, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston Texas, USA
Ahmet Erbağci
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Taking Flight.
A lambda immunohistochemical stain in the shape of a bird.
Credit: Ahmet Erbağci, Resident, Department of Pathology, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
Anna Dumitriu
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Fragile Microbiome.
Materials: Wet felt, needle felt, beads, embroidery, sterilized gut bacteria from a diverse microbiome.
This hand-felted artwork is richly embroidered and beaded to represent the lining of the gut and the rich communities of bacteria that live inside us and it is also impregnated with their DNA.
Credit: Anna Dumitriu in collaboration with Dr Jane Freeman and members of the Healthcare Associated Infections Research group, including academic and clinical members of staff at the University of Leeds.
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Microbe Mouth.
Materials: Porcelain, silk, gold wire, hydroxyapatite.
This necklace explores how the oral microbiome is teeming with bacteria and considers what the future may hold for us if teeth can be grown in the lab using biomineralizing bacteria. The handmade porcelain teeth that make up this necklace have been glazed with glazes derived from various bacterial species which live in our mouths and cause tooth decay and gum disease, including Porphyromonas gingivalis that can introduce an iron-containing light brown stain to the glaze. At the centre of the necklace hangs a tooth which was grown in the lab using an extremophile bacteria which is part of the species called Serratia (Serratia N14) that can produce hydroxyapatite, the same substance that tooth enamel is made from.
Credit: Anna Dumitriu, Dr Melissa Grant and Rachel Sammons at the University of Birmingham. Commissioned by The Science Gallery London.
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Syphilis Dress.
Materials: Edwardian cotton underdress, embroidery silk, botanical printing with madder soaked eucalyptus with ferrous sulphate dip, and DNA of Treponema subsp. Treponema strain Nichols.
This artwork explores the history and future of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis, known as ‘The Great Pox’. The dress is embroidered with images of the bacterium observed in the laboratory and those embroideries are impregnated with the DNA of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum strain Nichols extracted by the artist under the supervision of Grillova and Lacey. This DNA is non-infectious.
Credit: Anna Dumitriu, in collaboration with scientists Dr Linda Grillova, George Lacey and Professor Nicholas Thomson. Supported by Arts Council England.
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Coming Back.
Materials: Wood, antique brass door handle, TB DNA from the Euro-American strain, paint.
This antique door has been carved with textures that are reminiscent of the damage caused in the lung by tuberculosis. The antique door handle comes from a former TB sanatorium and is marked with the two-bar cross, the symbol of the American Lung Association’s ‘crusade’ against TB. The carvings and door handle have been inoculated with DNA from the Euro-American TB strain. The painted forms remind us of TB multiplying inside cells as the disease spreads in populations.
Credit: Anna Dumitriu, inspired by the research of Dr Tim Walker, Modernising Medical Microbiology/CRyPTIC, University of Oxford. Supported by Arts Council England.
Chitturi Ramya
Credit: Chitturi Ramya, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Guntur Medical College, India.
Deeksha Sikri
Credit: Deeksha Sikri, Pathodoodles.
Kaitlyn Niznik
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Intact vs Distorted.
As an art teacher and chronically-ill artist, I enjoy shedding light on lymphocytic colitis and other lesser-known IBDs. I use markers, watercolors, and an Xacto knife to carefully cut out my pieces. This piece was inspired by interest in crypt architecture seen in colitis histologies.
Credit: Kaitlyn Niznik, Art Teacher, Hudson Valley, New York, USA.
Maaia Jentus
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Abstract Anatomy I.
In this picture, I explored possibilities to simplify human anatomy to make it unrecognizable to the untrained eye.
Credit: Maaia Jentus, Resident in Clinical and Molecular Pathology, PhD Candidate in Endocrine Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
Pascual Meseguer Garcia
Credit: Pascual Meseguer Garcia (@Histopatolomon), Head of the Pathology Service at the LLuís Alcanyís Hospital in Xàtiva, Valencia, Spain.
Priya Suneja
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Dancing Poodle.
Cytology image showing a cluster of malignant cells arranged interestingly, with sheer resemblance to that of a happy dancing poodle dog.
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Night by the Seashore.
Cytology image is of thin colloid showing its cracking artifact. The moon and stars have been additionally added to the picture, and the crackling colloid is imagined as crashing waves of the sea shining under the moonlight.
Credit: Priya Suneja, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Thu Ly and Rucha Karnik
Credit: Thu Ly and Rucha Karnik, Karnik Lab, Plant Science Research Group, School of Molecular Biosciences & Histology Research Service, University of Glasgow, UK.
Chris Mason
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Diagnostic Drawings
Credit: Chris Mason, retired NHS consultant, RD&E, Exeter, UK.
Vasudev Prabhu
Credit: Vasudev Prabhu, Senior Resident, Department of Pathology, Yenepoya Medical College Hospital, Deralakatte, Mangaluru, Karnataka state, India.
Virginia Fernandez
Credit: Virginia Fernandez, Pathology Resident, University of Miami Health System/ Jackson Memorial Hospital, USA.
James S. Lewis Jr.
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Alien Brain Perineural Invasion.
Adenoid cystic carcinoma with perineural invasion.
Credit: James S. Lewis Jr. Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic Arizona (Scottsdale Campus), USA.
Sanchez Granel German
Credit: Sanchez Granel German, Laboratorio Quantum, Rosario, Argentina.
Misha Dalal
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Banksy Meets White Blood Cells.
Digital artwork of a young girl reaching for white blood cells pictured as balloons. Inspired by the famous Banksy painting.
Credit: Misha Dalal, Medical Student, Government Medical College Surat, Gujarat, India.
Mariana Duarte Ribeiro
Credit: Mariana Duarte Ribeiro, Biomedical Laboratory Scientist at Surgical Pathology Unit of Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal.
Abdul-Azeez R. Raazol
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SchoolBoy Leukemia.
My previous work as a laboratory technician at the Curie Institute of Paris inspired me to use art to bring wellness to patients and staff, leading me to create Histosmile – delivering smiles to hospitals through Pouring art. This piece is dedicated to a friend who had leukemia.
Credit: Abdul-Azeez R. Raazol, Histosmile, France.
Anna Poputchikova
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Signet-ring Cell Carcinoma Infiltration.
Realistic style histopathological painting, created during my first pathology rotation as a resident. Fusion of watercolour, acrylic paints, joy, and excitement at the beginning of a new journey in the professional environment.
Credit: Anna Poputchikova, Resident, University of Padua, Italy.
Shruti Shemawat
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The Patho Bride.
In India, the wedding lehanga (dress) is the most important attire for the bride in her wedding. This artwork is a version of my dream lehenga that combines my passion and hobby together. A faceless bride signifies the pivotal role of pathologists in diagnosis while staying behind the curtains.
Credit: Shruti Shemawat, Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Science and Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Maria D. Lozano
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Cyto-Swan.
Spotted in fine-needle aspiration of the pancreas in groups of contaminated normal duodenal epithelial cells.
Credit: Maria D. Lozano, Department of Pathology, Clinica University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Ewan Parry
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The Dark Side of the Mos.
Gravid female Anopheles mosquito from Burkina Faso with H&E staining (left) and a fluorescent confocal image (right).
Credit: Ewan Parry, Postdoctoral researcher, Sinkins Lab, Centre for Virus Research & Histology Research Service, College of MVLS, University of Glasgow, UK.
Amy Engevik
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Tuft Cells.
The murine small intestine was immunostained to show rare tuft cells (white). Intestinal laminin in the mesenchyme under the epithelial cells is yellow. The lateral membrane of epithelial cells is purple. Nuclei stained with Hoechst appear cyan/teal.
Credit: Amy Engevik, Assistant Professor, Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA.
Syed Salahuddin Ahmed
Credit: Syed Salahuddin Ahmed, retired Professor and Senior Consultant of Pathology, Delta Hospital Ltd, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Woo Cheal Cho
Credit: Woo Cheal Cho, Assistant Professor, Section of Dermatopathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA.
Frédérique Meeuwsen
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Crochet Cardiology.
My latest medical crochet work. One of my fellow residents defended her PhD regarding the development of the heart, so I gifted her this self-made little thing. It actually wore a graduation cap as well, but the owner removed it. I was aware that I did not fully capture the exact anatomy, however the recipient was still very happy with it.
Credit: Frédérique Meeuwsen, Pathology resident, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Christopher Candela
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Through the Looking Glass.
This is a stained-glass microscope.
Credit: Christopher Candela, White Coat Artistry, Michigan, USA.
Sophia Chandrasekar
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Mini-lab cross stitch.
Inspired by enjoyment of creating cross stitch designs and the current trend of miniatures of everyday items, this cross stitch was my attempt to recreate and design the lab in miniature. My personal favorite designs are the mini microscope, pipette, and sharps container.
Credit: Sophia Chandrasekar, Warbler Works Studio.
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