Researchers in the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US, have published a study on a mutation-independent strategy for the treatment of cone cell… Read More »Gene therapy of an immune signaling strategy may propose a mutation-independent approach to preserve vision in RP
Researchers in the Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles, US, have published a study on marked pathological tissues in the retinal nerve fibre layers (RNFL)… Read More »A comprehensive study of the retina in Alzheimer’s disease reports a marked thinning of inner and outer retinal nerve fibre layers
Researchers at the Sydney Institute of Vision Science, in New South Wales, Australia report that good long-term efficacy of anti-VEGF therapy over 5 years provides… Read More »Five-year outcomes of retinal vein occlusion provide long term data for anti-VEGF treatments on real-world data
Researchers at the University of Berkeley have reported that the vertebrate medium wavelength cone opsin (MW-opsin) may be used to overcomes limitations to support vision… Read More »Optogenetics research uses medium-wavelength cone opsin to re-engineer retinal ganglion cells for retinitis pigmentosa
An Italian research team based in Milan has reported that functional and morphological changes in the retinal vasculature can be identified within Alzheimer’s disease (AD)… Read More »Microvascular retinal changes between Alzheimer’s patients and control participants
A Paris-based research report suggests that transferrin, the iron-binding serum protein, could be useful to help to treat patients with retinal detachment (RD). Human studies… Read More »Study suggests that transferrin supplementation may be used as an adjunctive therapy to surgery for patients with retinal degeneration
A research report of the first clinically validated high-throughput next gene sequencing (NGS) technology indicates that sensitivity and specificity had 100% used with the caveat… Read More »High-throughput clinical research testing use a large inherited retinal dystrophy
A number of researchers and clinicians suggest that consistent clinical trial outcome measures may benefit decision-making for clinical research across three ophthalmic studies – AMD,… Read More »Outcomes for ophthalmic clinical trials requires consistent studies to ensure systematic reviews and decision-making
A UK researcher has identified that evidence may suggest Leonardo da Vinci had intermittent exotropia, which may result in an ability to switch to monocular… Read More »Strabismus indicates that Leonardo da Vinci may have some evidence among works of sculpture and painting
A report of a survey among private practice ophthalmologists and hospital-based ophthalmologists suggest that clinicians may have insufficient knowledge of genetics in AMD. Both office… Read More »A majority of office-based ophthalmologists do not claim with a familiarity of AMD genetics