A significant research report, published in the journal Nature, has demonstrated that fibroblast cells could be reprogrammed into rod photoreceptor-like cells allowing the reversal of… Read More »Reprogramming of fibroblast cells into photoreceptor cells restore vision, without the need of stem-cells or viral treatment.
The EMA (European Medicines Agency) has issued a formal statement following a comment from France’s Health Minister, Oliver Veran, suggesting that patients with COVID19 symptoms… Read More »EMA has advised that the use of ibuprofen for COVID19 treatment will be monitored.
Italian researchers at the Università degli Studi della Campania, Naples, have reported the results of the first study from a European cohort of pericentral RP… Read More »An Italian research team report on a pericentral retinitis pigmentosa study identifying several genetic variants
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Technion‐Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, have completed a clinical and genetic mapping of the majority of Israeli… Read More »An Israeli research consortium has reported the largest nationwide genetic analysis of inherited retinal disease
Researchers at the Department of Ophthalmology at Ghent University Hospital have reported that the identification of genetic variants from wet AMD patients do not provide… Read More »Non-responders of anti-VEFG treatments for AMD identify certain genetic variants in the VEGF pathway
Researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, has reported that a mutation-independent strategy for treating autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) prevents photoreceptor cell… Read More »Strategy aims to overcome RP heterogeneity using gene therapy treatment with dominant retinitis pigmentosa
Researchers led by Prof. Mark Pennesi M.D., Ph.D., based at the Ophthalmic Genetics Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA, has launched a new international… Read More »An international natural history study for patients with RP caused by EYS mutations
Researchers based in Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), UK have reported a systematic review of differential methylation in rare ophthalmic diseases. Methylation of key epigenomic biomarkers,… Read More »A research study of methylation as an epigenomic biomarker in rare ophthalmic diseases
Research at the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has reported a phenotypic discordance between siblings with STGD1 having the same ABCA4 variants. … Read More »A research study of Stargardt disease (STGD1) highlights inter-sibling variability between genotype-phenotype
Research on a nation-wide study conducted in Israel has collated the largest cohort of inherited retinal disease (IRDs) to date. The Israel inherited retinal disease… Read More »A nation-wide study of inherited retinal disease reports the largest IRD cohort published in Israel