Research & Publications
Peer-reviewed work spanning maternal-infant infection and immunology, infant neurodevelopment, and cardiac development and metabolism. Each entry links to an original plain-language summary.
Showing 18 of 18 publications
Communications Biology
Blood immune profiles of mothers and newborns exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in pregnancy showed changes that have been linked to neurodevelopmental disorders.
NeoReviews
A review of enzyme replacement therapy and newer treatments for inherited metabolic diseases that appear in newborns and infants.
Women
In a Los Angeles cohort of pregnant women with COVID-19, living in lower-income areas was associated with more severe COVID-19 and more pregnancy complications.
Scientific Reports
Children exposed to maternal SARS-CoV-2 before birth had developmental delay about ten times more often than pre-pandemic controls.
Nature Communications
Uninfected term newborns of mothers with COVID-19 had unusually high rates of respiratory distress — less frequent when mothers had been vaccinated before infection.
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
After COVID-19 in pregnancy, fetal growth restriction seen on ultrasound was linked to a much higher rate of adverse newborn outcomes.
Acta Paediatrica
Two trained assessors scoring infant movement videos with the MOS-R agreed almost perfectly, across three high-risk groups of infants.
BMJ Open
Infants exposed to COVID-19 before birth more often showed suboptimal early motor development than matched pre-pandemic infants.
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 passed from mother to baby, but waned over six months; vaccination after recovery boosted them.
Frontiers in Physiology
A new mouse model reliably produces atrial fibrillation through a controlled, non-genetic injury to atrial heart cells.
Cell Reports Medicine
Profiling more than 1,400 blood proteins showed that COVID-19 in pregnancy rewires the immune system of both mother and newborn.
Journal of Molecular Medicine
Genomic analysis of an infant with a rare neonatal cardiomyopathy pointed to a ciliopathy gene (ALMS1) as a possible cause.
Journal of the American Heart Association
A standardized care plan across University of California centers reduced early-term and cesarean deliveries for babies diagnosed with heart disease before birth.
Developmental Biology
A review of how glucose shapes normal heart formation and how high glucose in pregnancy can disturb it.
Scientific Reports
Raising glucose uptake in the newborn mouse heart improved its ability to regenerate after injury.
American Journal of Perinatology
Two pregnant women with severe COVID-19 were supported with ECMO and delivered safely; both mothers recovered.
NeoReviews
An early-pandemic clinical guide to COVID-19 in pregnant women and newborns, including what was known about transmission.
Yeast
Early research: almost all strains of a widely used yeast gene-deletion library carry the [PIN+] prion, which can affect large genetic screens.
Publication data were retrieved from PubMed and cross-checked with the UCLA Profiles publication list. Summaries are original and based on each published abstract.