The registry will also serve as a platform to recruit patients for clinical trials to help develop new treatments for the disease. (sciencedaily.com)
The challenge, he says, will be to expand genetic testing of people with blindness so as to find enough eligible patients for clinical trials of these rare disorders. (sciencemag.org)
In the past, doctors have relied mostly on two biomarkers — urinary albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR) and estimated glomerular filtration rate — to identify those at higher risk of kidney failure and also to select patients for clinical trials. (sciencedaily.com)