Inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) isn’t one disease. It’s many different ones that cause your retina to break down and stop working. They can make you color-blind or night blind. Others can lead to ...

When I found out I have retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a type of inherited retinal dystrophy, I was shocked. Nobody in my family has vision problems. I had some trouble with my vision, but I thought it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The loss of UBAP1L gene function appears to be associated with nonsyndromic retinal dystrophy, according to ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their colleagues have identified a gene responsible for some inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), which are a group of disorders that damage the ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OcuSciences, Inc., a medical device company developing retinal imagers to detect early disease by assessing retinal metabolic activity, today announced the ...

CHICAGO — Children with a rare, inherited retinal disorder who were treated with the first Food and Drug Administration-approved gene therapy had noticeable improvements in vision that may be related ...

Researchers report that deleting one of the inhibitors of the RPE65 gene in a mouse model that carries a human disease mutation prevents degeneration of cone photoreceptors that are used for daytime ...

MeiraGTx Holdings plc announced promising results from a first-in-human study published in The Lancet, involving a gene therapy treatment for children with AIPL1-associated retinal dystrophy, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Foundation Fighting Blindness and the Nixon Visions Foundation are working together to launch the Nixon ...

Meaningful responses have been observed in 11 out of 11 LCA4 children treated to date with rAAV8.hRKp.AIPL1 All 11 children treated with rAAV8.hRKp.AIPL1 between 1 and 4 years old were legally blind ...