Fewer than 30% of people with these genetic variants wind up blind, even though the faulty genes had been thought to cause ...

BENGALURU: Bengaluru-based Narayana Nethralaya is developing gene therapy solutions that could drastically reduce the cost of treating genetic eye diseases. Currently, gene therapy treatments, used to ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

A new study from the University of Oklahoma suggests that small genetic differences in two proteins—previously known for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Case Western Reserve University is hoping to offer the first therapy for an inherited eye disease leading to blindness. Shigemi Matsuyama, an associate professor of ophthalmology and ...

After a long day at work, Jamie Smith expected to have a normal night at home with her two sons. But when she noticed her youngest son’s eyes shaking, she knew something was wrong. At 4 months old, ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are advancing the fight against inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) with new genetic research that aims to improve diagnoses and lay the ...

Steven Pittler, Ph.D., at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has sought to find modifier genes for the hereditary eye disorder retinitis pigmentosa type 59. After onset in one’s late teens, RP59 ...

MeiraGTx Holdings plc (NASDAQ:MGTX) stock is trading higher after the company inked a strategic collaboration in the area of ophthalmology with Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE:LLY). MeiraGTx will grant Lilly ...

This year saw notable progress in head and neck cancers, Huntington's disease, personalized genetic therapy, and heart ...