No one suspects a thing!

Single-panel cartoon portraying two organelle-mimicking lipid vesicles ringed by colourful amphiphile heads and tails. In speech bubbles they joke about passing as “real” while pumping chloride ions through drawn transmembrane transporters, symbolised by green spheres shuttling across the membrane. The humour comments on research into synthetic vesicles that replicate biological organelles by actively transporting anions and sustaining structural stability, underscoring advances in nanobiotechnology and membrane chemistry.

This cartoon abstract was prepared for the RSCPoster 2025 submission Transmembrane anion transport in organelle-mimicking vesicles by Krystyna Maslowska-Jarzyna.