AD Bambi Nicklen called with a fun assignment for Stanford magazine: An image was needed for a story about scientists creating online games for those who where interested in RNA. The amount of testing needed to map RNA is so vast scientists thought crowdsourcing could be valuable and speed progress. Anyone with an interested could build and test models while playing games. The idea of online gamers climbing strands seemed like a perfect blend of play and progress. Since I’m from a science family, it was fun playing with RNA strands as a visual device.