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Increasing the concentration of a certain type of BMP increases the production of the same categories of sensory interneurons (red and green). Left: no BMP added; center: 1x BMP added; right: 10x BMP added.
Headshot of Antoni Ribas in a lab coat
Untreated mouse skin showing no hair growth (left) compared to mouse skin treated with the drug UK5099 (right) showing hair growth.
Children take a photo in front of lemonade stand with UCLA researcher.
Illustration of mice adapting to their custom-designed space habitat on board the International Space Station
Left: axons (green, pink, blue) form organized patterns in the normal developing mouse spinal cord. Right: removing netrin1 results in highly disorganized axon growth.
Andrew Goldstein is an assistant professor in residence in the UCLA departments of Urology and Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, as well as a member of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, both at UCLA.
T cells (red) produced using artificial thymic organoids developed at UCLA.
Evangelina Vaccaro received Dr. Kohn’s treatment for bubble baby disease in 2012.