The latest MAX MAG, our community magazine (Issue 3, 2023), in its “Off the Beaten Track” section, published an article featuring Alex Tyakht, a bioinformatics group leader from our lab. Alex shares the inspiring journey of himself and his wife, an illustrator, with a dynamic team comprising a book writer and scientists who are creating non-fiction books about science for children. The entire article is available for Max-Planck Society members at: https://max.mpg.de/sites/mpibio/News/Seiten/Turning-science-into-kids-stories.aspx.

(photo: Jean-Claude Winkler)