Popular Mechanics Drives Home the Hope for a Cancer Cure With Clever Cover Art

Another winning effort from artist Vik Munoz

This is genius. For the June issue of Popular Mechanics, which hit newsstands this week, the magazine sourced for its cover some images straight out of a medical laboratory.

The words “Cancer” and “Yes,” part of a rhetorical question-and-answer posed by Dr. Jennifer Wargo, M.D., a doctor at Houston’s Anderson Cancer Center, are a patchwork of live cancer-cell images. From the issue notes:

Tal Danino, director of the Synthetic Biological Systems Lab at Columbia University and artist Vik Muniz partnered together to create the images “cell by cell” through live imaging.

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