What is this microscopic image from Peter Gabriel's New Blood album cover? This image appears on the cover of Peter Gabriel's album New Blood. It appears to be a photograph of some microscopic biological cell. But it doesn't look like a blood cell to me. What kind of cell is it? !enter image description here

This is an embryonic stem cell on the tip of a needle photographed on a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The image was taken by Steve Gschmeissner, see here for the original.