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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.
A photograph of a smiling grandfather and his grandson.
Headshot of Antoni Ribas in a lab coat
A photo of three UCLA-affiliated individuals standing and smiling side-by-side in front of a colorful mural. From left to right: Manuel Rosa-Garrido, postdoctoral fellow; Douglas Chapski, graduate student; and Thomas Vondriska, UCLA professor of anesthesiology, medicine and physiology.
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.