BioRender, a web-based tool specifically designed for life-science and medical illustration, is like a feature-lite version of Illustrator. In 2019, a graduate student in Sattler’s laboratory suggested an alternative. “I’m not gonna give the adjective that I really want to say, but they were just really not nice,” Sattler says of the resulting images. But Illustrator is a professional-grade tool with a notoriously steep learning curve, and PowerPoint’s strength is slide shows, not graphic design. Microsoft’s tool for creating and displaying slideshow presentations is one of two popular options for creating scientific illustrations the other is Adobe Illustrator. So, when the time came to document what her team had done for a journal article, Sattler did what her colleagues frequently do: she fired up PowerPoint.
But papers still need writing - and illustrating. Like many researchers, Rita Sattler is trained to conduct science, not to draw it.
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