GT005 aimed to treat GA by delivering the gene for complement factor I (CFI) to the eye using an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector. CFI regulates the activity of the complement immune system ...

You may not know about inherited retinal dystrophy, but this group of eye disorders can steal your vision. Learn more them and how your genes play a role.

Surgeons injected a synthetic gene into the back of Janet Osborne's eye in a bid to prevent more cells from dying. It is the first treatment to target the underlying genetic cause of age-related ...

Older women could be vulnerable to harmful inflammation from new gene therapies to treat incurable eye diseases, new research has found. The University of Bristol-led study, published in Molecular ...

You have the same genes that are involved in eye development. Therefore, we now consider it much more likely that the eye was sort of invented only once in evolution. Then the various animal phyla ...

It’s not clear why the patients with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, a mitochondrial disorder that causes blindness, also experienced the modest benefits in their untreated eye. n a Phase 3 gene ...

Astellas also revealed today that it is terminating the development of ASP2390, a DNA vaccine for house dust mite-induced allergic rhinitis, and GITR agonist antibody ASP1951 for cancer – both ...