Researchers led by the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel uncovered disease-causing variants in ...

IOB researchers, in collaboration with a team from Radboud University Medical Center and partners from more than 100 institutions worldwide, identify new genetic cause of inherited blindness. The ...

The retina has two types of cells that gather light: rods and cones. The rods are around the outer ring of the retina and are active in dim light. Most forms of retinitis pigmentosa affect the rods ...

Advanced gene editing tool, CRISPR/Cas9, was used to reprogram photoreceptor mutated rods to functioning cones and restore vision in retinitis pigmentosa. Retinitis pigmentosa causes genetic mutations ...

More than half of patients with severe retinitis pigmentosa who received the Alpha IMS subretinal implant recovered functional vision, according to results from a second human clinical trial of the ...

According to a new scientific breakthrough, a device - a tiny, three-by-three millimetre microchip, has allowed patients with inherited blindness to detect objects with their eyes, unlike a rival ...

CHICAGO -- A mutation-agnostic gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) showed promise for improving vision in severely vision-impaired and blind patients, a randomized clinical trial showed. After ...

May 9, 2012 — A subretinal microchip implant has entered new clinical trials in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, and early results are encouraging, according to researchers from 2 studies. An earlier ...

Researchers have discovered that the absence of Adiponectin receptor 1 protein (AdipoR1), one of the principal enzymes regulating ceramide homeostasis in the retina, leads to an accumulation of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Usher syndrome type 2 caused greater visual field loss than asymptomatic retinitis pigmentosa, according to data ...