Cover art for Zhang et al. (2024) amazing work on mTOR, inflammaging and longevity,
featured on the cover of the Nature Aging April (2024) issue.
The cover image conceptualizes the link to inflammaging by depicting aged flies as confined to a jar (representing the nuclear localization of the Drosophila NFκB-like transcription factor Relish), emitting brighter light (representing upregulation of inflammatory mediators).
From the sketched concept to the final illustration:
