With the eye drops showing signs of success, the team next tried a different delivery approach: gene therapy. After a week of eye drops, the team injected a functional copy of a gene that codes ...

Eye drops you can buy over the counter may be a good option if you have a mild case of dry eye, as long as you follow the labeling. Some drops may contain chemicals that can cause side effects ...

Spark Therapeutics, which is in the process of being bought by Roche, paved the way for ophthalmology gene therapies with its Luxturna, approved at the end of 2017 for a rare eye disorder.

Cell and gene therapies for degenerative eye diseases are still a long way off, but they have the potential to make a transformative difference to people’s lives. Vision impairment and loss ...

In February, Gyroscope started dosing patients in a phase 1/2 trial of its lead GT005 candidate gene therapy for the dry form of AMD, which is more common than wet AMD but has no approved ...

The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the ... “There have been reports that p27Kip1 levels drop following injury, so that ...