This was a cover that I had hoped would be published with an article that I helped to co-author that described a pro-survival gene, or otherwise functioning as an anti-apoptotic gene.  Playing with the images of apoptotic cells in culture I did manage to submit the image to Microscopy Today, and they published it in 2008.

I thnk what amazes me is that I really made a whole lot more cover submissions than were successfully published (LOL). I find a similar statistic in publishing data, where really only a small part of what is studied, learned, documented, and put out there in the world of science, makes it into print.  Good things have to get strained through the teeth of overworked and sometimes not that interested peer-reviewers.  Who, I wonder, thinks so highly of themselves that they have the right, and/or mission, to exclude the works of others.  Notwithstanding the well know fraud in science, the great majority of individuals working to find “truth” in all its glory, are honest and well-intentioned.