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UCLA scientist Lili Yang in her lab
Two scientists wearing PPE work at a station in a UCLA cell therapy lab.
A photo of the Smith family in the hospital. Jaren Smith, left, received a life-saving kidney from his mother, Shryra, center. Jaren's dad, Howard, right, accompanied them on the journey.
Microscopy image of gut muscle cells.
Brain scan images with a hand gesturing.
A collage featuring five of the children who received treatment in a gene therapy clinical trial co-led by UCLA.
Microscopy image of a cortical organoid, a stem cell-derived model that mimics the developing human brain. The circular rosettes are clusters of neural stem cells giving rise to neurons, shown in green.
seedlings of the Arabidopsis thaliana plant (some in its natural green color, some genetically modified and in white)
Artistically shot image of a UCLA lab facility with deep blue tones.
An image showing epithelial chromatin variation, with DNA (blue) and histone marker H3K27me3 (yellow) that represses gene activity