Development of C.elegans

Click on the image to open a larger version. Copyright: John Sulston

This sketch of cell division of Caenorhabditis elegans, the nematode worm, comes from Sir John Sulston FRS, the 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Sulston and colleagues detailed the development of C.elegans from egg to adult, eventually determining the fate of each and every cell of an organism.

John Sulston is chairing the policy project on People and the Planet.

This image was used to illustrate The Scientific Century (cover of Part 1).