HILLEMAN – A PERILOUS QUEST TO SAVE THE WORLD’S CHILDREN
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Michael Astrachan
Medical History Pictures together with Paul Offit produced HILLEMAN – A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children, a feature-length documentary about the life and legacy of this legendary scientist. The animation you see in this film was done by XVIVO and was an incredible project to be part of.
CONDUIT™ Interbody Platform
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Michael Astrachan
XVIVO and DePuy Synthes (a Johnson & Johnson company) recently partnered on an animation of their CONDUIT™ Interbody medical devices to help healthcare providers understand the level of engineering and detail that is embedded in the devices, with the goal of optimizing efficacy.
XVIVO Welcomes Medical Illustrator Alisa Brandt
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Michael Astrachan
XVIVO is thrilled to announce its newest hire, Alisa Brandt. A Master of Arts graduate of John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, Alisa has extensive experience in medical and biological illustration, animation and fine art.
Neuralink’s Neurotechnology Platform
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Michael Astrachan
The scientists at Neuralink have an ambitious vision: creating high-bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to seamlessly connect humans with computers. This groundbreaking technology has the potential to assist people suffering from brain trauma due to genetics, heart disease, or cancer. To bring their vision to life for the company’s launch event, they turned to XVIVO.
When Migraine Attacks
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Michael Astrachan
Anyone who suffers from migraine can tell you it is more than just a bad headache. Migraine attacks often include pain with nausea or vomiting and can be accompanied by hypersensitivity to light, sound or touch and last for up to 3 days. When a migraine occurs, the person becomes disabled and can’t perform their normal daily …
Precision in Animating Surgery
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Michael Astrachan
Dr. Parth Shah, the Director of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Thoracic Outlet Center at Hartford Healthcare’s Heart and Vascular institute asked XVIVO to create an animation of a surgery he performs to relieve a condition called thoracic outlet syndrome, or TOS. The details of the surgery were difficult to convey in regular conversation and diagramming …
Your Mouth, in Sickness and Health
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Michael Astrachan
XVIVO Scientific Animation recently wrapped up an exciting project on the bacteria that are found in the human mouth and how these bacteria are affected by oral hygiene (or the lack thereof). We teamed up again with colleagues at Johnson & Johnson for a new virtual reality (VR) visualization of the normal bacterial community that …
Start-up with Style: Launch your Visuals with XVIVO
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Michael Astrachan
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Start-up pharmaceutical and biotech companies often need to create illustrations, investigational candidate images, and animations to provide rich scientific detail on a disease state, a process, or a mechanism of action for their website, for presentations, and for printed materials. XVIVO Scientific Animation is …
Illustrating the Unconventional: PROTAC™ Technology for Disease Therapy
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Michael Astrachan
XVIVO, in collaboration with Wyant Simboli and their client, Arvinas Inc., helped communicate the unconventional mechanism of action for a new class of drugs that engage the body’s own protein disposal system to target cancers and other difficult-to-treat diseases. PROTAC™ PLATFORM Arvinas’ approach is to tag a protein implicated in a disease with their proprietary Proteolysis-Targeting Chimera, …
XVIVO Founder on UCONN VR Panel
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Michael Astrachan
This week, XVIVO’s Founder and Creative Director, Michael Astrachan, spoke on an invited panel of guests at UCONN’s Science Salon to discuss “Seeing Things: Virtual Reality Hits Mainstream.” Michael was honored to speak alongside the other accomplished panelists: Patrick Belinger, Creator of NovaSwarm; Horea Ilies, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UCONN; and Zach Stone, Vice …
Medical History Pictures together with Paul Offit produced HILLEMAN – A Perilous Quest to Save the World’s Children, a feature-length documentary about the life and legacy of this legendary scientist. The animation you see in this film was done by XVIVO and was an incredible project to be part of.
