The inside world.

I'm a cell biologist. I spent countless hours during my PhD and postdoc looking through microscopes at cells, and I never got over how beautiful they are. The shapes, the structures, the way they move and divide. That fascination is the reason Lupe exists.

Lupe is the German word for magnifying glass. An homage to the microscopes that inspired all of this.

Now that I have kids of my own, I see how curious they are and how much they absorb about the world around them, but almost nothing reaches them about the world inside them. The cells in their bodies are just as fascinating and beautiful as anything they'll discover in a garden or on a nature walk, and I hope Lupe gives them a closer look at the microscopic world too.

That's what Lupe is. A closer look at the hidden, microscopic world.