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Mouse brain showing hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (plaques in blue)
Headshot of S. Thomas Carmichael in a lab coat smiles in a UCLA lab
Microscope images showing brain tissue that has been damaged by white matter stroke (left) and then repaired by the new glial cell therapy (right). Myelin (seen in red), is a substance that protects the connections between neurons and is lost due to white matter stroke. As seen at right, the glial cell therapy (green) restores lost myelin and improves connections in the brain.
Headshot of S. Thomas Carmichael in a lab wearing a lab coat
Headshot of S. Thomas Carmichael on left, headshot of Donald Kohn on right
Clockwise from top left: Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael, Dr. Inma Cobos, William Lowry, Kathrin Plath and Bennett Novitch.
Headshot of S. Thomas Carmichael in a lab coat
A photomicrograph showing new tissue growing in the stroke cavity in a mouse. Red tubes are blood vessels; green filaments are nerve fibers.
Neurons (in green) producing growth differentiation factor 10 (red), a molecule discovered by UCLA scientists that previously had no known role in the adult brain.