The art of ARTists™ 

Jacques Cohen

The ARTist behind the work of art displayed on the pages of this website is no other than a founder of Alpha Scientists, Jacques Cohen. The work selected for the site combines his passion for embryology with his interest in photography and digital art creating colorful, vibrant, and interesting images that showcase gametes and embryos as central figures.

 

Diana Tain

Diana is a practicing Senior Embryologist in Malaysia. She started her work as an embryologist in 2015 and after obtaining a Masters degree in Clinical Embryology at the University of Leeds, developed an interest in graphic art while still pursuing a career in Embryology. Diana is passionate about educating her peers in an interactive and fun way on social media, presenting factual information through artistic drawings.

Although not trained professionally in digital art, she has honed her skills to come up with humorous and relatable quotes, memes and summary illustrations from recently published articles as well as cover image design for presentations and brochures.

Diana Tain

“I eat, drink, breath embryology and andrology!”

Sourima Biswas Shivhare

Sourima is a Senior Embryologist and a Clinical Application Scientist. She loves to learn, share knowledge and, in her spare time, create art. Using thousands of individually rolled paper coils, she depicts the different stages of human embryo development in vitro. Shown on the left is an 8-cell embryo and below is a blastocyst.

“After a 10-12-hour shift, when insomnia kicks in, worrying if a single injected egg would fertilise, or a patient would have a blastocyst to transfer, rolling strips of paper to portray the outrageously beautiful first stages of life seems to help.”

Sourima Biswas Shivhare

 

Ranita Atcheson

“I have always loved to paint and worked as an art teacher prior to pursuing a career in embryology.  Recently I was given the opportunity to combine my passion of science and art to create paintings for my clinic’s embryo transfer room. I feel very privileged to be both an artist and an embryologist.”

  • Human Zygote

  • Human 8-Cell Embryo

  • Human Morula

  • Human Blastocyst

“I adored painting this embryo progression ending with a beautiful blastocyst and the artwork has also been an excellent visual tool to aid explanations for patients at transfer.”

— Ranita Atcheson