New Insights on Cardiomyopathy From Gene-Edited PigsScientists have generated gene-edited pigs to study dilated cardiomyopathy resulting from mutations in the RBM20 gene that encodes RNA-binding motif protein-20. It is generally thought that RBM20 mutations cause dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease that weakens and enlarges the heart muscle, by affecting the expression of various genes involved in…

Household income for Black households in the United States is 59 cents to every dollar of White household income—a figure that is exactly the same as it was in 1978, said David Williams, MD, the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.Similar income disparities exist for Native American households, who also make 59 cents to every…