‘Night and day’: Adventuring through childhood with newfound immune systems

After years of hospital stays and fear, families are watching their kids thrive. Just days ago, the gene therapy they received — thanks to a UCLA clinical trial — for the often fatal childhood disorder LAD-1 earned accelerated approval from the FDA.

How UCLA’s Marike Splint brings reality — and unpredictability — to performance

Splint, a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, often begins her work not with a script, but with a place — a meadow, a train, a park or within the virtual map of Google Earth. Wherever it unfolds, the question is the same: Can we reshape how we experience the places we think we know?

Who is affected most by housing discrimination?

It’s not surprising, say researchers with UCLA’s California Health Interview Survey: Those who suffer most are communities long targeted by discrimination — with stark disparities across race and ethnicity, gender, disability and other categories.

How the birthright citizenship fight could affect neonatal health — and more media coverage of UCLA

NPR’s “Morning Edition” featured UCLA’s Arturo Vargas Bustamante discussing how the debate over birthright citizenship could affect maternal and infant health. Read more about UCLA in today’s Associated Press and CNN.