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Laura Brubaker
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Biomedical Visualization - specializing in ophthalmology and research discovery. Making the invisible, visible through animation, illustration, presentations, conferences, and technical innovation.

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"Manzanita: Late fall fade" - appreciation for native plants and the beauty they bring through every season.
#VisualeyesRx #nativeplant #art #nature
A manzanita shrub with dark brown foliage seen over a coper colored background.
June 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"Sunshine - Copper currents 1" - bringing awareness to native plants, Oregon sunshine and honeysuckle vine.
#VisualeyesRx #nativeplants #nature #art #botanicald
June 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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"Windswept" an homage to native plants - honeysuckle and manzanita.
#VisualeyeRx #nativeplants #nature #art
A photomontage of leaves - honeysuckle and manzanita in hues of brown and mauve with a sense of movement and current.
June 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Seasonal allergic conjunctivitis is a major burden — Illustrating the subtleties of conjunctival severity on a standardized model improves physician training, clinical grading, repeatable assessments for treatment outcomes.
#ophthalmology #clinicaltrials #allergies #medicalillustration #art #sciart
Severe allergic conjunctivitis - show on a caucasian with brown iris. This is an inflammatory condition of the conjunctiva (the clear membrane lining the inside of the eyelid and covering the white of the eye) caused by an allergic reaction to substances like pollen, pet dander, or dust mites. It's characterized by symptoms like red, itchy, and watery eyes. This left eye depicts red swollen lids, a bright red lower eyelid margin, watering eyes with chemosis and bright red irritated conjunctival vessels. The power of pollen - this photograph composite shows a background of abstracted pink petals and in the center are light white pear blossom clusters giving a pastel floating feel to the flowers.
April 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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"Threadbare Gilded Age"

#Visualeyesrx #naturephotography
Old leaves, veined and fragmented lit in a coppery tinted color and overlapping one another.
April 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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"Dismantled" Tolmie's Lily
#VisualeyesRx #Nature #Wildflower #Sciart
A picture of a flower stalk floating with petals pulled from the flower and floating nearby. The flower is Tolmie's Lily or Pussy Ears. The background is a textured mixtured of golds and browns and purples with a close up of the hairy petals reflected in the background. Copyright by Laura Brubaker 2025. These are photos all taken on the same day and woven together.
April 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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#EarthDay 2025
1980. Touching nature inspires a lifelong connection.

In 2014, I taught marine biology. That year, starfish wasting disease ravaged the species and left them unavailable to experience.

What we protect today defines what future generations will learn from tomorrow.

#Visualeyesrx
Child, age 9, holding a purple starfish while kneeling on the Oregon coast.
April 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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I first lost my sight (temporarily) at age 7 in a tree-climbing mishap (while dressed as 3 superheroes). That early darkness shaped my path. Now, I design with vision equity in mind—translating science into accessible visuals for all. Vision is personal. Access is essential.
#VisualeyesRx #eye
Laura at age seven sitting on the couch in pajamas with her eyes bandaged. She is clutching a hotwater bottle and attempting to pose for a photo following a trip to the emergency department to have bark debris removed from her eyes following an apple tree climbing mishap.
April 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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A storyboard diagram for the animation of energy extraction from a glucose molecule. I always pictured it being a bit like a loaf of bread thrown into a sea of waiting fish! Fast and furious with one molecule after another coming by for a quick snack!

#SciArt, #MedicalIllustration, #VisualeyesRx
A diagram overview of glycolysis and the process of extracting energy from glucose. A large hexagon of pink glucose is interacted upon by phosphofructokinase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to release protons, electrons used in capturing energy in the molecules of ATP and NADH.
April 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Energized or exhausted?
Metabolism matters but is terribly boring for students!
In this storyboard the coenzyme FAD molecules were designed to mimic hang gliders. This animated behavior reinforces the idea that FAD=ENERGY and metabolic ENERGY=FUN!
#Visualeyesrx #medicaillustration
Showing a detail of the electron transport chain where the coenzyme FAD swoops in to pick up electrons and protons during the conversion of glucose to energy. In the process the use of metaphor is applied to animate FAD like a hang glider swooping in.
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Portrait history - March 2025
#signalgate
A photoblend of firey colors, burned looking wood, and the portrait of Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic after his release of texts from the Signal Gate exchange.
March 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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"Democratic Lecanomancy" - the branches of government, will they balance or break?

Lecanomancy is a form of divination using a dish of water.

#VisualEyesRx #nature #photooftoday #Democracy
March 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Toothwort. Beautiful signs of change from winter to spring. Delicate seeming yet resistant and hardy.
#Visualeyesrx #Spring #nature #photooftheday
white flowers, a native Pacific Northwestern weed called toothwort. Photographed against a colorful abstract background
March 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Reading "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan and filled with the awe that permeates the galaxy and searches the the outer and inner limits. When we ask why - amazing things can happen.
#art #visualeyesrx #NatureLovers #universe #sciart
March 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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"The Knowing" -

Dedicated to the scientists who look for truth and hold their ideals core to their being.

#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday #SciArt
March 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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This is my retinol lab for vitamin A testing last month. Please note - even on the recommended vitamin A dosing for a woman my age...I am starting to creep up the scale and getting to the higher end after 6 months of daily supplementation. High vitamin A can cause organ damage.
#measles #vitaminA
March 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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When the air is alive - springtime and the labor of breathing. As an asthmatic and medical artist, this was the image I felt best encapsulated the anxious feelings that accompany the first flowers of spring. Used in a recent dinner talk on asthma. #asthma #sciart #lungs #pulmonology #visualeyesrx
March 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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"Drying blood, death by a thousand cuts."
When change is everywhere and everywhere is change.
©Laura Brubaker 2025

#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday
March 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"Restless" - a photo-blend of change.
#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday
Trees layered over water as the sun moves through bare branches and reflections. A feeling of winter and yet an anatomical nature of the work as if the trees are lungs trying to take a breath underwater. There is a ghostly discomfort and energy of movement in the piece.
March 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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A series of images created for a dinner presentation on Asthma and current clinical trials available for patients not responding well traditional treatments.

#asthma #sciart #lungs #pulmonology #visualeyesrx
Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the upper respiratory system is inflamed by environmental conditions. Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the entire system in being choked by dirty air and the lungs are shown in black. Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the environment is shown as red and firey but the lung tissue is less reactive than expected. Silhouette of a human in profile showing their respiratory pathways. In this image the upper respiratory system is highly inflamed by mild environmental conditions.
March 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Lower lid margin swelling can be associated w/ anterior blepharitis. This key marker of lower lid expansion results in smoothing of skin texture relative to severity of the progression and used in objective grading by ophthalmologists.
#ophthalmology #sciart #eye #VisionHealth #visualeyesrx
March 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Springing up!
In celebration of seeing the first flower of the year - the first butterfly of the year and our seed library giving away 3500 packets of seed - a colorful photo blend as we head into March!
#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday
Yellow wildflowers in a photo blend of orange and fuschia colored patterns found in nature.
March 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Scientific American interviewed design editor Amanda Montañez. A fellow medical illustrator and designer, we also share a love of Ramon Y Cajal - book "The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal"
#sciart #visauleyesrx

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Screenshot of a Scientific American interview with their own graphics editor. Drawings of neurons in gray ink on manilla colored paper. The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal published in 2017 by Larry W. Swanson (Author), Eric Newman (Author), Alfonso Araque (Author).
February 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The sun is ever brighter today. The deluge of first flight butterflies and their orange wings brings to mind Pterygium.

pteryx, meaning "wing", and pterygion, meaning "fin".

The common name is "Surfer's Eye" due to the UV exposure.
#sciart #ophthalmology #visualeyesrx #eye #visioncare
February 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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After a recent deluge of water I traced the track of water down the mountain and discovered a beautiful sediment where the finest fines had been deposited. The shadows of the shrubs above mostly concealed the delicate beauty - but it was there.

#Artist #Nature #artwork #VisualEyesRx #artoftheday
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM