Nature Chemical Biology: Focus on Developmental Biology Cover Art

Original cover art created for a special editorial focus on the Developmental Biology. The cover image depicts the fate mapping of cellular lineages using different fluorescent dyes in a zebrafish embryo (top, colored in red), a Caenorhabditis elegans embryo (middle, colored in brown) and a mouse embryo (bottom, colored in green) at four distinct stages. The stem cells isolated from the mouse blastocyst are cultured and differentiated into neurons. The work was created using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.