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Graphic representation of CRISPR-Cas9 repairing the mutation in the gene that causes sickle cell disease (shown in light blue).
Headshot of Irene Llorente on left; headshot of Arjun Deb on right
Photograph of Keriann M Backus, Ph.D.
Microscope images showing (left) healthy heart muscle cells and (right) heart muscle cells that have been infected and damaged by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (in green). | Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/JCI Insight
Trainee Sandeep Gupta works on stem cell research in UCLA faculty member Samantha Butler’s lab.
A colony of human induced pluripotent stem cells
Three scientists gather around a computer.
Cristina Puig Saus headshot on left, Yvonne Chen headshot on right
Headshot of Donald Kohn