Congratulations to Rachel Reyes and Grace Wu for their first place win at the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center’s (BSCRC) 2024 microscopy image and video contest! Their image, “Protectors of our Brain” is a microscopic image of a mouse brain displaying the main defensive players of our central nervous system. Astrocytes (red) and microglia (green) protect our resident neural cells, such as neurons (aqua), from chemical and mechanical damage, intruders, and sometimes even from itself.
