Genetics

100-fold improvement in sight seen after gene therapy trial

The vision of people with a rare inherited condition that causes them to lose much of their sight early in childhood was 100 times better after they received gene therapy to address the genetic mutation causing it. Some patients ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Lower-carbon concrete floors could pave the way to a health solution

Unlike dirt floors common in some rural parts of the world, concrete floors are easily cleaned of disease-carrying pathogens—but they come at a high environmental cost. A lower-carbon flooring mix could provide a solution.

Health

Self-employment tied to lower health in China

Older Chinese people who transition from wage earners to self-employment report lower self-rated health than those remaining in waged jobs, finds a study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

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