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A crowd gathered at a UCLA lecture hall.
Dr. Ranmal Samarasinghe in his UCLA lab wearing a white coat.
Fluorescence microscopy image showing a dense network of branching astrocytes in green, interspersed with red intermediate progenitor cells against a dark background.
Split fluorescence microscopy image of a neural progenitor cell village, divided diagonally. The top right shows cells with green cytoskeletal filaments and nuclei stained in pink, purple, and blue. The bottom left shows the same field with nuclei highlighted in orange, gray, and white against blue-stained cell bodies.
Blue, translucent 3D rendering of a human brain in side view, showing internal structures, the cerebellum and brainstem against a black background.
Digitally recreated brain cells are featured in light blue against a dark blue backdrop.
A colorful brain scan showing a side view with glowing hues of blue, green, yellow and red.
Developing neocortex in Down syndrome. IT neurons are labeled in magenta and deep-layer neurons in green. IT and double-positive neurons are increased in DS at this stage.
Fluorescence microscopy image of stem cell-derived neurons alongside a portrait of Dr. Daniel Geschwind, UCLA neuroscientist and researcher.
artistic rendering of a healthy neuron