David Bolinsky, one of the creators of the animation studio XVIVO, talks about the essence of scientific and medical illustration– expressing scientific “truth” through artistic beauty. This ten-minute talk features numerous images made to educate students on the subject of molecular and cellular biology, ending with the three-minute animation “The Inner Life of a Cell.” A high resolution of this clip can be downloaded at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/147.