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Diabetic retinopathy delivery device could find other applications
In-PharmaTechnologist follows up on a possible new delivery device for diabetic retinopathy, which FierceDrugDelivery reported on last week. It's a MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) device that
MEMS implant could target diabetic retinopathy
There is no neat, targeted way to treat diabetic retinopathy, a condition that could lead to blindness. Laser therapy can result in diminished side and night vision and the other current method used,
Visionary scientists grow retina from stem cells
Scientists in Japan have seen the future, and it's a retina grown in dish. They started with a group of mouse embryonic stem cells and saw it through to precise, three-dimensional assembly of a
Researchers discover key to macular degeneration
Researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism implicated in age-related macular degeneration, the major cause of untreatable blindness in the industrialized world. The news is getting some
AZ, UCL to partner on stem cell cure for diabetic blindness
AstraZeneca and University College London have announced a collaboration to develop medicines that use stem cells to repair damaged eyesight in diabetic patients. Under the terms of the three-year
Gene therapy produces dramatic improvement in vision
A benign adenovirus armed with a genetic payload was used to correct the sight of a dozen people suffering from a rare genetic disorder called Leber's congenital amaurosis. And their work could have
Gene therapy helps improve sight of the blind
Two new human trials of a gene therapy for inherited blindness have demonstrated that injecting replacement genes under the retinas of the blind can spur at least partial sight in some volunteers. In
Scientists herald "breakthrough" on blindness
Activating the Robo4 protein in mice helped them to develop working blood vessels and ward off the kind of common physical damage that leads to blindness. And the work may point to new therapies for
deCODE discovers key to a subset of glaucoma
Scientists at Iceland's deCODE Genetics have found the genetic mutation that causes exfoliation glaucoma, a primary cause of blindness in the elderly. A mutation in the LOXL1 gene is apparently the
