The rising use of light-emitting diodes and the popularity of pickups and S.U.V.s have prompted complaints about the glare and intensity of headlights.
A Young Mother Found Herself Cripplingly Weak. Did Her Operation Cause This?
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A Young Mother Found Herself Cripplingly Weak. Did Her Operation Cause This?
Three months after having bariatric surgery, she was vomiting several times a day and couldn’t even move her eyes.
Credit.Photo illustration by Ina Jang
June 2, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
The 21-year-old woman stood at the sink washing the bottles her baby went through that day. She was exhausted. As a plastic bottle filled with water, it suddenly felt strangely heavy. Her hands began to shake from the strain. She felt her legs threaten to buckle beneath her and grabbed the counter to keep from collapsing. “Mama, help me,” she called out.
Scientists Partially Restored a Blind Man’s Sight With New Gene Therapy
Using a technique called optogenetics, researchers added light-sensitive proteins to the man’s retina, giving him a blurry view of objects.
In an experiment, a 58-year-old volunteer with a genetic form of blindness was able to identify the position of two cups.Credit.Sahel, et al.; Nature Medicine
May 24, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET
A team of scientists announced Monday that they had partially restored the sight of a blind man by building light-catching proteins in one of his eyes. Their report, which appeared in the journal Nature Medicine, is the first published study to describe the successful use of this treatment.