Every year, more than one million scientific articles are published in the life sciences. Two-thirds of them include statistical figures that are not always understandable, interpretable, or reproducible—even for fellow scientists. Dr. Helena Jambor, a molecular biologist at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Chur and the Faculty of Medicine at TU Dresden with the NCT/UCC Dresden, has now developed a practice-oriented checklist to help researchers design clear and effective scientific figures. The accompanying paper and the checklist were recently published in the journal Nature Cell Biology.