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Lab-grown stem cells into muscle progenitor cells (green) and growing muscle fibers (red)
X ray image showing bones
Child grabs elbow.
Melissa Spencer and another researcher look upon a screen in a UCLA lab.
Sensory interneurons (with nuclei in red) derived from mouse stem cells.
Microscope image showing muscle stem cells produced using the newly discovered chemical cocktail. Muscle cells, in red, are integrating into injured muscle, in green, of an adult mouse.
Courtney Young (center) with UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center members — and MyoGene Bio cofounders — Melissa Spencer and April Pyle.
Photograph of Melissa Spencer in the lab
These microscopic images show gene expression in muscle stem and progenitor cells as they mature from early development to adulthood (left to right). As part of this process, the cells switch from actively expressing one key gene (green) to another (violet); this is accompanied by the growth of muscle fibers (red).
Photograph of Dr. Theodore Scott Nowicki.