CRISPR used to repair blindness-causing genetic defect in patient-derived stem cells
(Columbia University Medical Center) Scientists have used a new gene-editing technology called CRISPR, to repair a genetic mutation responsible for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), an inherited condition that causes the retina to degrade and leads to blindness in at least 1.5 million cases worldwide. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Subretinal Implant Restores Sight in Retinitis PigmentosaSubretinal Implant Restores Sight in Retinitis Pigmentosa
Almost three-quarters of patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa were able to localize or identify objects after receiving a subretinal implant that stimulates ganglion cells. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Ophthalmology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Ophthalmology Headlines - November 19, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Ophthalmology News Source Type: news
RetroSense Therapeutics Raises $6 million in an Over-Subscribed Series B Financing to Advance Clinical Development of Lead Product RST-001 for Retinitis Pigmentosa
Patient recruitment underway for Phase I/II clinical study
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--RetroSense Therapeutics, a privately-held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has secured $6 million in a... Biopharmaceuticals, Ophthalmology, Venture CapitalRetroSense Therapeutics, optogenetics, Retinitis Pigmentosa (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - November 12, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Researchers create a worm model to investigate a rare subtype of blindness
(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) Researchers of the group of human molecular genetics at IDIBELL, led by Julian Ceron, have created a model of C. elegans worm with homologous gene alterations to human retinitis pigmentosa. Thus, this model opens up a promising avenue to understand the pathology and investigating new efficient therapies. The study, funded by the La Marató de TV3 Foundation, has been published in the journal RNA. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 4, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Gene therapy with dogs may lead to retinitis pigmentosa treatment
Stephen FellerBETHESDA, Md., Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Researchers were able to halt the progress of retinitis pigmentosa in dogs using gene therapy, offering hope they may be able to help people with the condition. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Gene Therapy Staves Off Blindness from Retinitis Pigmentosa in Canine Model
Gene therapy preserved vision in a study involving dogs with naturally occurring, late-stage retinitis pigmentosa, according to research funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The findings contribute to the groundwork needed to move gene therapy forward into clinical trials for people with the blinding eye disorder, for which there is currently no cure.
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Source: News from NEI - October 13, 2015 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Jason Source Type: news
Gene therapy staves off blindness from retinitis pigmentosa in canine model
NIH-funded study suggests therapeutic window may extend to later-stage disease. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - October 13, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Gene therapy staves off blindness from retinitis pigmentosa in canine model
(NIH/National Eye Institute) Gene therapy preserved vision in a study involving dogs with naturally occurring, late-stage retinitis pigmentosa, according to research funded by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. The findings contribute to the groundwork needed to move gene therapy forward into clinical trials for people with the blinding eye disorder, for which there is currently no cure. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 13, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Study stops vision loss in late-stage canine X-linked retinitis pigmentosa
Three years ago, a team announced that they had cured X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, a blinding retinal disease, in dogs. Now they've shown that they can cure the canine disease over the long term, even when the treatment is given after half or more of the affected photoreceptor cells have been destroyed. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 12, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Penn study stops vision loss in late-stage canine X-linked retinitis pigmentosa
(University of Pennsylvania) Three years ago, a team from the University of Pennsylvania announced that they had cured X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, a blinding retinal disease, in dogs. Now they've shown that they can cure the canine disease over the long term, even when the treatment is given after half or more of the affected photoreceptor cells have been destroyed. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 12, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
The Man Who Grew Eyes
The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated train pulls out of Sannomiya station, guided smoothly along elevated tracks that stand precariously over the bustling city streets below, across the bay to the Port Island. The island, and much of the city, was razed to the ground in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 – which killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 of Kobe’s buildings – and built anew in subsequent years. As the train proceeds, the landscape fills with skyscrapers. The Rokkō mounta...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Man Who Grew Eyes
The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated train pulls out of Sannomiya station, guided smoothly along elevated tracks that stand precariously over the bustling city streets below, across the bay to the Port Island. The island, and much of the city, was razed to the ground in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 – which killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 of Kobe’s buildings – and built anew in subsequent years. As the train proceeds, the landscape fills with skyscrapers. The Rokkō mounta...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bionic Eyes, Stem Cells and Gene Therapy: 3 Cutting Edge Cures for Blindness
Scientists have long known that while our eyes do most of the heavy lifting of sight—taking in particles of light, bending and refracting them, turning them into electrical impulses—we actually “see” with our brains. Between the eye and the mind, however, a lot can go wrong, and until recently, if someone’s vision started to go or was never there to begin with, there wasn’t much doctors could do about it. Now, thanks to an explosion of new research, scientists at a stage in biology where they “know a heck of a lot about the causes of vision problems,” says Dr. Paul A. Sieving...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alexandra Sifferlin Tags: Uncategorized argus II bionic eye blindness Cure Gene Therapy Research stem cell therapy vision loss Source Type: news
Flying Blind: Legally Blind Man Learns to Fly
Jason DeCamillis of Ypsilanti, MI, has wanted to learn to fly a plane ever since he was a child. However, he never thought that it would be possible because he is legally blind due to Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive condition which slowly affects his peripheral and night vision. (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - August 26, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Hobbies Source Type: news
Woman Sees For The First Time In Years Thanks To Bionic Eye
WSVN-TV - 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco More than a decade after losing her eyesight, Carmen Torres can finally see again, thanks to a bionic eye and a first-of-its-kind surgery. "I was happy and I was just laughing like crazy," Torres told reporters at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami on Friday, describing what it felt like to see light after so many years in the dark. "It was very emotional, but I'm very strong. I didn't cry." Torres, 58, began losing her sight at the age of 18 due to retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative genetic disease in which eyesight degrades over time. By the time ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 1, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
