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Lab & Labels: 174 3D models

Glassware, plates, pipettes, arrows, labels, scale bars (real sizes everyday). Each one is a ready-made 3D model you can turn, recolour and place in a figure — open BioDioRama and type its name in the Library search.

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Labels & arrows · Culture · Glassware · Tools · Electrophoresis · Mixing · Centrifuges & tubes · Heating & cooling · Pipettes & tips · Measuring · Microscopes · Safety · Making nanoparticles & gels · People & furniture · Microbiology kit · Microbiology kit · Biochemical tests · Omics & sequencing · Chromatography & mass spec · Cell culture & transfection · Automation · Sample preparation · Bioreactors & pumps · Physiology · Figure layout (journal style)

Labels & arrows 10

Text label — A text label that faces you. Type any words; choose plain text or a tag with a background.
Arrow — Straight, curved, double-headed or cycle arrows to show movement, reactions and processes. Looks the same as: Red arrow, Green arrow.
Pointer line — A thin line with a dot at its end — connects a label to the thing it names.
Scale bar — A scale bar with its length written underneath — "10 µm", "1 mm"…
Highlight circle — A ring to circle and highlight something.
Symbol — A big symbol or short text: +, −, ×, ?, !, →, Δ, ATP…
Backdrop card — A coloured rounded panel to place behind a group of items, like a figure panel.
Curved arrow — A curved arrow for reactions and movement.
Double-headed arrow — An arrow pointing both ways (equilibrium, exchange).
Cycle arrow — A circular arrow for cycles and loops.

Culture 5

Petri dish — A glass dish of agar with bacterial colonies; the lid can sit on top or beside it.
Well plate — A multi-well plate (96, 24 or 6 wells) with samples — as a dilution series or random colours.
Cell culture flask — A T-flask with pink growth medium, used to grow cells.
Glass-bottom imaging dish — A 35 mm dish with a No. 1.5 coverslip window for confocal and live-cell imaging, with stained cells (F-actin, nuclei; drawn enlarged) on the glass. (35 mm dish, 14 mm glass window)
Chamber slide — A glass slide with removable culture chambers (1–8 wells) and stained cells in each — for immunofluorescence; the chambers come off before mounting. (7.5 × 2.5 cm slide)

Glassware 10

Test tube — A glass test tube with liquid and an optional stopper.
Test-tube rack — A rack of test tubes with different coloured samples.
Beaker — A glass beaker with graduation marks and liquid.
Conical flask — An Erlenmeyer (conical) flask.
Round-bottom flask — A round-bottom flask for heating and reactions.
Microcentrifuge tube — A small conical plastic tube with a hinged cap (Eppendorf tube).
Vial — A small glass vial with a crimped metal cap, like a vaccine vial.
Reagent bottle (Duran) — A screw-cap glass media bottle with label and graduations — 100 mL to 1 L, clear or amber.
Measuring cylinder — A graduated cylinder on a hexagonal base.
Volumetric flask — A volumetric flask filled to the calibration mark, with stopper.

Tools 7

Micropipette — An adjustable-volume pipette with a disposable tip.
Dropper pipette — A glass Pasteur pipette with a rubber bulb.
Syringe — A syringe with plunger and needle — for injections and vaccines.
Microscope slide — A glass slide with a stained sample under a cover slip.
Microscope — A classic light microscope.
Medicine — A two-tone capsule or a scored tablet.
Scored tablet — A round tablet with a score line.

Electrophoresis 7

Agarose gel electrophoresis tank — A horizontal gel box: agarose gel with wells, running buffer, electrodes and lid. Step it through casting, loading, running (dye fronts move) and finished (stained bands).
Vertical PAGE tank (SDS / native) — A mini vertical tank with two polyacrylamide gel cassettes, stacking gel, wells and protein bands migrating down. Switch between SDS-PAGE and native PAGE.
Electrophoresis power supply — A power pack with a voltage / current display, controls and red and black output jacks.
Gel / blot result (for analysis) — A finished gel or blot as a flat figure panel: DNA under blue light, Coomassie or silver-stained protein gels, or a western blot — with a ladder, size marks and lane labels you can edit.
Blue-light transilluminator — A blue LED light pad with a stained gel on it, bands glowing behind an amber filter lid.
Gel imaging system — A gel documentation cabinet with UV / blue transilluminator, camera and a monitor showing the gel image.
Western blot transfer sandwich — The semi-dry transfer stack — anode, filter paper, membrane, gel, filter paper, cathode — exploded or assembled, with proteins moving from gel to membrane.

Mixing 5

Rocking platform (blot incubation) — A rocker gently tilting a tray with a blot membrane in blocking buffer or antibody.
Orbital shaker with flasks — An orbital shaker with clamped conical flasks of bacterial culture.
Vortex mixer — A vortex mixer with a tube pressed on the cup and the sample swirling.
Magnetic stirrer hot plate — A stirrer hot plate with a beaker, stir bar and vortex — solutions, nanoparticle suspensions, ruby-red gold nanoparticles, hydrogel precursor or an emulsion.
Sonicator (probe / bath) — A probe sonicator with its titanium horn in a sample on ice (cavitation bubbles), or an ultrasonic bath with tubes.

Centrifuges & tubes 7

Microcentrifuge — A benchtop microcentrifuge with a 24-place fixed-angle rotor, tubes, display and hinged lid (open it, or show it spinning).
Benchtop centrifuge (50 mL tubes) — A refrigerated benchtop centrifuge with swing-bucket or fixed-angle rotor holding 50 mL tubes.
Conical tube (15 / 50 mL) — A screw-cap conical tube with liquid — clear, with a pellet, two phases, a density gradient or a milky nanoparticle suspension.
PCR tube strip — Eight thin-walled PCR tubes in a strip with caps — open or closed.
Tube rack with samples — A rack of 50 mL, 15 mL or 1.5 mL tubes holding samples of different colours.
Ultracentrifuge — A floor-standing ultracentrifuge with an armoured chamber and a swinging-bucket or fixed-angle titanium rotor — pelleting extracellular vesicles, viruses and nanoparticles at 100,000 × g. (≈ 76 × 70 × 85 cm)
PCR / qPCR plate with optical seal — A skirted 96- or 384-well PCR plate filled with qPCR mix under an optical adhesive seal, shown sealed, peeling or open. (12.8 × 8.6 cm (SBS footprint))

Heating & cooling 9

PCR thermocycler — A thermal cycler with a 96-well block and heated lid (open it to show the tubes); real-time qPCR version too.
Water bath — A heated water bath with a floating tube rack and temperature display.
Dry heat block — A dry block heater with tubes for denaturing samples (95 °C) or enzyme steps.
CO₂ cell-culture incubator — A 37 °C, 5 % CO₂ incubator with the door open — shelves of culture flasks and dishes behind the glass inner door.
Ice bucket with tubes — An ice bucket keeping sample tubes cold.
−80 °C freezer — An ultra-low freezer with the door open: frosted shelves of cryo-storage boxes.
Liquid nitrogen dewar — A liquid-nitrogen dewar, open with cold vapour or closed with its lid.
Cell freezing container — An isopropanol-jacketed freezing container (Mr. Frosty-type) holding cryovials so cells cool at about −1 °C per minute in a −80 °C freezer before going into liquid nitrogen. (≈ 11 cm across)
Hypoxia chamber — A sealed modular incubator chamber with plates and a water dish, flushed through its ports from a mixed-gas cylinder (e.g. 1 % O₂, 5 % CO₂) and placed in the incubator. (≈ 30 cm across)

Pipettes & tips 3

Multichannel pipette — An 8- or 12-channel pipette with tips and samples — for filling plates fast.
Serological pipette & controller — A 10 mL serological pipette on a motorised pipette controller, partly filled.
Pipette tip box — A box of 10, 200 or 1000 µL tips with a hinged lid.

Measuring 9

Analytical balance — A 0.1 mg balance with glass draft shield (door slid open), weigh boat and powder.
pH meter — A benchtop pH meter with its glass electrode in a beaker of buffer.
Spectrophotometer / plate reader — UV–Vis spectrophotometer with a cuvette in the light path, a NanoDrop-style microvolume reader, or a plate reader with its drawer out.
DLS / zeta-potential analyser — A dynamic light scattering instrument with a folded-capillary zeta cell or cuvette, and a size-distribution peak on screen — the standard nanoparticle characterisation.
Cell counter / haemocytometer — An automated cell counter showing live and dead cells, or a glass haemocytometer with counting grid and coverslip.
Extracellular flux analyser (Seahorse XF) — Measures oxygen consumption (OCR) and extracellular acidification (ECAR) of live cells in a 96-well XF plate under its green sensor cartridge. The screen shows a Mito Stress Test (oligomycin, FCCP, rotenone/antimycin A) or a glycolysis stress test. (≈ 45 × 46 × 40 cm)
XF sensor cartridge on a cell plate — The green Seahorse sensor cartridge lifted off its 96-well cell plate: a sensor sleeve with O₂ and pH fluorophore spots dips into every well, and four injection ports (A–D) per well deliver compounds during the run. Corner wells are background wells without cells. (12.8 × 8.6 cm (SBS footprint))
Microplate washer (ELISA) — An automatic plate washer: a manifold of dispense and aspirate needles washes an ELISA plate column by column (or all 96 wells at once), fed from a wash-buffer bottle and emptying into a waste bottle. (≈ 34 × 36 × 23 cm)
Nanoparticle tracking analyser (NTA) — A laser module and microscope camera film the light scattered by single particles as they diffuse; tracking each one gives the size distribution and concentration. A syringe pump feeds the sample; the monitor shows the video and the size histogram. (≈ 28 × 28 cm instrument)

Microscopes 2

Research microscope — Inverted cell-culture, upright fluorescence, confocal (with scan head, laser and image on screen), stereo or transmission electron microscope.
Flow cytometer — A benchtop flow cytometer with a FACS tube on the sample port and a quadrant dot plot on the monitor.

Safety 1

Biosafety cabinet / fume hood — A class II biosafety cabinet (laminar down-flow, front grille, glass sash, UV lamp) or a chemical fume hood, with items on the work surface.

Making nanoparticles & gels 10

Rotary evaporator — A rotary evaporator drying a thin lipid or polymer film in a rotating flask, with condenser coil and receiving flask — step 1 of thin-film hydration.
Freeze-dryer (lyophiliser) — A freeze-dryer with an acrylic chamber of vials holding lyophilised cakes, and a frosted condenser.
Microfluidic LNP mixing setup — A syringe pump pushing lipids in ethanol and mRNA in acidic buffer into a staggered-herringbone mixing chip, with fresh LNPs collected in a vial.
Liposome mini-extruder — Two gas-tight syringes pushing liposomes back and forth through a 100 nm polycarbonate membrane on a heating block.
Dialysis / drug-release setup — A dialysis bag or cassette in stirred release medium — purification or an in vitro release study, with released drug spreading out.
Centrifugal ultrafiltration tube — A centrifugal filter device: nanoparticles stay above the membrane while buffer and free drug pass into the tube.
Reflux synthesis setup — A round-bottom flask in a heating mantle under a water-cooled condenser — e.g. Turkevich gold nanoparticle synthesis turning wine-red.
Photocrosslinking (UV / blue light) — An LED lamp curing hydrogel discs in a PDMS mould — precursor turns into translucent gel as curing progresses.
3D bioprinter — An extrusion bioprinter printing a cell-laden hydrogel lattice layer by layer, with a photocuring LED.
Electrospinning setup — A syringe pump feeding polymer solution to a high-voltage needle: Taylor cone, whipping jet and a nanofibre mat on a rotating drum.

People & furniture 3

Scientist (lab coat, gloves, goggles) — A researcher with a real human body (BodyParts3D) dressed for the lab — coat, nitrile gloves, safety goggles — pipetting, holding a flask, at the microscope, carrying a rack, pointing or walking. Skin, hair and clothing are adjustable.
Laboratory bench — A lab bench with chemical-resistant worktop, drawer cabinets, power sockets and a reagent shelf of bottles.
Lab stool — A height-adjustable lab stool.

Microbiology kit 30

Inoculating loop — A nichrome wire loop (or sterile plastic loop) for picking and streaking colonies; flamed red-hot between uses. (≈ 20 cm)
Inoculating needle — A straight wire for stab cultures and picking single colonies.
Bunsen burner — A gas burner for aseptic technique: a hot blue cone (air hole open) or yellow safety flame.
Cell spreader — A glass L-shaped or plastic hockey-stick spreader for spread plates.
McFarland turbidity standards — Barium sulfate standards (0.5–4) to set inoculum density; 0.5 ≈ 1.5 × 10⁸ CFU/mL.
API 20E identification strip — 20 miniaturised biochemical tests for Enterobacterales, read as a 7-digit profile number.
API Staph identification strip — Biochemical strip for identifying staphylococci and micrococci.
Antibiotic disc diffusion (Kirby–Bauer) — Antibiotic discs on a Mueller–Hinton lawn; the zone diameter is read against EUCAST/CLSI breakpoints. Choose an isolate preset, or "Custom" to type your own antibiotics and zone sizes.
E-test (gradient strip MIC) — A strip with an antibiotic gradient; the MIC is read where the elliptical zone meets the strip.
Broth microdilution MIC plate — Two-fold antibiotic dilutions across a 96-well plate; the MIC is the first clear well.
Checkerboard synergy plate — Two antibiotics diluted across rows and columns to find synergy (FIC index).
Biofilm assay (crystal violet) — Biofilm biomass stained with crystal violet in a 96-well plate.
Phage plaque assay — Clear plaques where phages lysed the bacterial lawn — counted as PFU/mL.
Phage spot test — Drops of a phage dilution series spotted on a lawn: confluent lysis to single plaques.
Serial dilution series — Ten-fold dilutions of a culture before plating for viable counts (CFU).
Anaerobic jar — A sealed jar with a gas-generating sachet and indicator strip for anaerobic culture.
Candle jar — A candle burns until ~5% CO₂ remains — for Neisseria and Haemophilus.
Autoclave — Steam steriliser: 121 °C at 15 psi for 15–20 min; tape stripes darken after a cycle.
Colony counter — A back-lit Quebec counter with a magnifier for counting colonies.
Membrane filtration unit — Water samples filtered through a 0.45 µm membrane, which is then incubated on medium.
Glycerol stocks in a cryobox — Bacterial stocks in 15–25% glycerol stored at −80 °C.
Gram stain kit — Crystal violet, Gram's iodine, decolouriser and safranin with a staining rack.
Slide with a stained smear — A heat-fixed smear on a microscope slide.
Hanging-drop slide — A drop of culture under a coverslip over a cavity slide — for watching motility.
Blood-culture bottle — Aerobic or anaerobic bottle; a positive culture turns the base sensor yellow.
Shake flask culture — An overnight culture in an Erlenmeyer flask.
Bioreactor (stirred-tank fermenter) — A stirred-tank bioreactor with Rushton impellers, sparger and pH / DO / temperature probes.
Broth culture — A tube of liquid culture: uniform turbidity (growth throughout), a pellicle (strict aerobes on the surface) or a sediment (anaerobes, chains).
Thioglycollate broth — oxygen requirement — Growth position shows obligate aerobes (top), anaerobes (bottom) or facultatives (throughout).
Agar slant with growth — A streaked agar slope for short-term storage of a culture.

Microbiology kit · Biochemical tests 18

Indole test (Kovács) — Tryptophan is split to indole, which turns Kovács reagent cherry red (E. coli +). Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Methyl red test — Mixed-acid fermentation keeps the pH below 4.4: red (E. coli +), yellow (Enterobacter −). Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Voges–Proskauer test — Acetoin from butanediol fermentation turns pink-red (Klebsiella, Enterobacter +). Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Simmons citrate test — Growth on citrate as the only carbon source turns the slant Prussian blue. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Urease test (Christensen) — Urea split to ammonia turns the medium pink (Proteus, H. pylori, Klebsiella +). Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
SIM medium (sulfide–indole–motility) — Black H₂S, cloudy spread from the stab = motile; Kovács on top for indole. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Motility agar — Motile organisms spread out from the stab line and cloud the agar. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Nitrate reduction test — Nitrite reacts with sulfanilic acid and α-naphthylamine to turn red. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Phenol red glucose broth — Fermentation acid turns phenol red yellow; gas collects in the Durham tube. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Phenol red lactose broth — Lactose fermenters turn the broth yellow. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Lysine decarboxylase broth — Decarboxylation raises the pH: purple = positive. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
ONPG test — β-galactosidase releases yellow o-nitrophenol (slow lactose fermenters). Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Coagulase tube test — S. aureus clots rabbit plasma within 4 h. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Gelatin liquefaction — Gelatinase liquefies gelatin, which stays liquid at 4 °C. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Litmus milk — Acid (pink), alkaline (blue), curd and peptonisation reactions in milk. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
Bile–esculin slant — Enterococci hydrolyse esculin in bile and blacken the slant. Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
O-F glucose test — Oxidative vs fermentative glucose use (open and sealed tubes). Switch the result between positive and negative. (tube 16 × 150 mm)
TSI (triple-sugar iron) agar — Triple-sugar iron agar slant: fermentation of glucose, lactose and sucrose turns phenol red yellow (A), no fermentation stays red (K); gas splits the agar and H₂S blackens the butt. (tube 16 × 150 mm)

Omics & sequencing 5

Single-cell partitioning instrument (droplet scRNA-seq) — A droplet single-cell controller (10x Chromium-type) with its microfluidic chip in the tray — rows of wells for barcoded gel beads, cells and partitioning oil — and the recovered GEM emulsion in a PCR strip. (≈ 34 × 42 × 22 cm)
Benchtop DNA sequencer (NGS) — A benchtop next-generation sequencer: flow cell on the stage under its door, reagent cartridge drawer, and a run screen with cycle count and per-cycle quality (% ≥ Q30). (≈ 50 × 54 × 46 cm)
Sequencing flow cell — A glass flow cell with 1–8 lanes and inlet/outlet ports. The close-up shows clonal clusters lighting up in four colours as each base (A, C, G, T) is read. (7.5 × 2.5 cm glass on a carrier)
Pocket nanopore sequencer — A USB-powered nanopore sequencer with its lid open on the flow cell: sensor array chip, priming port and sample port. Reads long single DNA or RNA molecules as they thread through protein nanopores. (≈ 10.5 × 3.3 × 2.3 cm)
Spatial transcriptomics slide — A spatial gene-expression slide with four framed capture areas of barcoded spots (55 µm). Tissue sections sit on the first areas; spots under the tissue can be coloured by expression cluster, as in spatial transcriptomics figures. (7.5 × 2.5 cm; capture areas 6.5 mm)

Chromatography & mass spec 4

HPLC system — A modular HPLC stack — solvent bottles, pump, autosampler with vials, column compartment (door open on the column) and UV detector — with a chromatogram on the monitor. Used for drug loading, encapsulation efficiency and purity. (≈ 34 × 42 × 70 cm stack)
LC–MS/MS system — An HPLC stack plumbed into the electrospray ion source of a tandem mass spectrometer, with a mass spectrum on screen — proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics and pharmacokinetics. (≈ 1 m wide)
FPLC protein purification system — A protein purification system (ÄKTA-type): buffer bottles, rotary valves, a glass column with a coloured protein band on the resin, UV/conductivity cells and a fraction collector, with the A₂₈₀ trace and fraction marks on screen. (≈ 46 × 36 × 26 cm plus column and collector)
Size-exclusion column with fractions (EV isolation) — A gravity size-exclusion column on a stand dripping into numbered fraction tubes. Extracellular vesicles run ahead of free proteins and come off in the early, slightly opalescent fractions. (column ≈ 1 cm × 10 cm; 0.5 mL fractions)

Cell culture & transfection 2

Electroporator with cuvettes — A pulse generator and shocking pod with an electroporation cuvette inserted, plus spare cuvettes with 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4 cm gaps — for transfecting cells, CRISPR RNP delivery and bacterial transformation. (≈ 30 × 28 cm pulser)
Electroporation cuvette — A cuvette with two aluminium plate electrodes; cells and DNA, mRNA or Cas9 RNP sit in the gap between them when the pulse is applied. (1.25 × 1.25 × 4.5 cm)

Automation 1

Liquid-handling robot — An open-frame pipetting robot: deck of tip racks, plates with a dilution series, a reservoir and tubes, with an 8-channel or single-channel head on the gantry — for high-throughput screening and assay set-up. (≈ 64 × 50 × 51 cm)

Sample preparation 3

Magnetic separation rack — Tubes in a magnetic stand: magnetic beads are pulled into a brown pellet on the tube wall so the cleared supernatant can be removed — immunoprecipitation, nucleic-acid clean-up and magnetic cell separation. (≈ 13 × 2.6 × 3.5 cm)
Spin column (DNA / RNA purification) — A silica-membrane spin column in its collection tube: lysate loaded above the membrane, wash spun through, or nucleic acid eluted — the standard miniprep, RNA and DNA extraction kit. (≈ 4.7 cm tall)
Cell strainer on a 50 mL tube — A nylon-mesh cell strainer in the mouth of a 50 mL tube: digested tissue stays on the mesh while the single-cell suspension drips through — before flow cytometry and single-cell sequencing. Rim colour follows the pore size. (tube 2.9 × 11.5 cm)

Bioreactors & pumps 5

Spinner flask — A glass spinner flask on a magnetic stir plate: side arms, a suspended paddle impeller and medium full of microcarriers. (≈ 9 cm across, 500 mL)
Rocking-motion bioreactor (wave bag) — A single-use cell bag on a rocking platform; the rocking motion mixes and aerates the culture — common for T-cell and CAR-T expansion. (≈ 50 × 36 cm platform)
Hollow-fibre bioreactor cartridge — A cartridge packed with porous hollow fibres (cut away): medium flows through the fibres while cells grow densely in the space between them — used for antibodies, EVs and cell expansion. (≈ 16 cm long)
Peristaltic pump — A peristaltic pump: rollers squeeze the tubing against the occlusion bed to drive medium without touching it — perfusion bioreactors, organ-on-chip and flow systems. (≈ 26 × 24 × 17 cm)
Syringe pump — A syringe pump pushing one or two syringes at a set flow rate through PTFE tubing — microfluidics, nanoparticle formulation and infusions. (≈ 32 × 18 × 12 cm)

Physiology 6

Patch-clamp rig — An electrophysiology set-up: air table inside a Faraday cage, upright microscope with a fixed stage and recording chamber, two micromanipulators with headstages and glass pipettes, perfusion lines and the amplifier rack. (≈ 90 × 70 cm air table)
Microelectrode array (MEA) — A glass MEA chip: 60 microelectrodes in an 8 × 8 grid wired to contact pads, under a culture ring of medium with a network of neurons or cardiomyocytes (grid enlarged). (4.9 × 4.9 cm chip)
TEER measurement (chopstick electrode) — A chopstick electrode measuring transepithelial electrical resistance across a cell monolayer on a Transwell insert, read on an epithelial voltohmmeter — barrier integrity of gut, lung and blood–brain barrier models. (24-well plate + meter)
Ussing chamber — Two half-chambers clamp a sheet of epithelium (e.g. intestine); gassed buffer circulates from water-jacketed reservoirs and agar-bridge electrodes record short-circuit current and permeability. (≈ 7 × 3 × 10 cm)
Organ bath / wire myograph — Water-jacketed organ baths with arterial rings or tissue strips hung between wire hooks and isometric force transducers in gassed Krebs solution — vascular and smooth-muscle reactivity. (≈ 6 cm per bath)
Langendorff isolated heart perfusion — A Langendorff apparatus: oxygenated buffer flows from a jacketed reservoir through a heating coil and bubble trap into an aortic cannula, retrogradely perfusing the coronary arteries of an isolated heart; effluent drips into a beaker. (≈ 46 cm tall)

Figure layout (journal style) 12

Panel letter (a, b, c…) — A bold panel letter for multi-panel figures: lowercase bold (Nature), uppercase bold (Science, Cell) or plain.
Numbered step badge — A numbered circle or square to mark the steps of a process: 1, 2, 3…
Figure panel frame — A rounded panel with optional border, title bar and panel letter — arrange several to build a multi-panel figure.
Zoom-in callout — A magnifier: a large circle showing a close-up, joined by tangent lines to a small circle around the region it enlarges.
Bracket — A curly or square bracket with a label, to group items or mark a range.
Signalling arrow — Pathway-diagram arrows: activation (→), inhibition (⊣), indirect (dashed), translocation (curved dashed), reversible (⇌) and binding.
Reaction arrow with cofactors — A biochemical step arrow with a curved cofactor arc (ATP → ADP, NAD⁺ → NADH…) and the enzyme named underneath.
Step arrow (chevron) — A broad chevron arrow with a label inside — for step-by-step workflows and protocols.
Experiment timeline — A time axis with tick labels and event markers — the treatment schedule seen in in-vivo study figures.
Colour legend — A key of coloured swatches with names. Type items as "Name:#colour; Name:#colour".
Bar chart — A publication-style bar chart with error bars and a significance bracket. Type your own values, errors and labels.
Line chart — A two-series line chart — drug-release curves, tumour growth, survival. Type values for each series.