Researchers at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, have provided a review paper… Read More »A systems biology approach aims to build new research activities on non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Researchers at the National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, have demonstrated that C3 and CR3 proteins – components of the human innate immune system – have… Read More »US National Eye Institute suggests that the innate immune system may be a double-edged sword depending on the context of RP and AMD
The UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has reported a high participation of the UK’s hospitals in clinical research ophthalmic studies. The study reports… Read More »UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has reported on the composition and performance of ophthalmology research studies over 8-year period
Researchers in an independent Australian federal research agency (CSIRO), Victoria, Australia, have demonstrated that a novel polymer synthesizing two anti-VEGF treatments (bevacizumab and aflibercept) may… Read More »A drug delivery approach for a thermoresponsive polymer shows sustained anti-VEGF treatment for AMD
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