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Malaria parasite as glass sculpture

Luke Jerram has just finished a new glass sculpture of a Plasmodium falciparum merozoite just after it has entered a red blood cell. The artwork is to be auctioned in New York to raise money for the charity Malaria No More. See the sculpture in Jerram’s microbiology artworks collection and a YouTube clip of the newly completed sculpture. (From the Luke Jerram Newsletter, […]

Luke Jerram has just finished a new glass sculpture of a Plasmodium falciparum merozoite just after it has entered a red blood cell.
The artwork is to be auctioned in New York to raise money for the charity Malaria No More.
See the sculpture in Jerram’s microbiology artworks collection and a YouTube clip of the newly completed sculpture.

(From the Luke Jerram Newsletter, October 2010)