It has been some time since my last post here. One of the reasons is 
that most of what I make is (partly) related to my work and based on 
data from colleagues. This image is inspired by work of a remote 
colleague and sufficiently different from my own subject to be fairly 
confident that I am the only intellectual owner.

For those of you that don't know what a glycocalyx is: it is a layer of 
long sugary molecules that line the inside of vessels as a sort of 
gelatin. It a.o. prevents the blood cells from direct contact with the 
vessel wall. There are more types of glycocalyx, (see e.g. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycocalyx) but this is the one I am 
referring to.

It started as an idea for a cover of a thesis in 2002 and I did never 
finish it because the PhD student decided she wanted to have a much less 
interesting cover. Recently I had some time to work on it again.

Don't know if I want to add things. I was thinking of pliers and/or a 
surgical knife. I might also change the aspect ratio to portrait without 
adding things.

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