Sentences with phrase «pigmentosa at»

«We wanted to identify some potential therapeutic targets that are common not just to one but to multiple forms of retinitis pigmentosa at late - stage disease, when it is more likely to be clinically diagnosed in a patient population.»

Not exact matches

Through the actions of its legislature and the relevant regulatory agencies, Illinois sets numerous conditions on that use: myopic people have to wear glasses or contact lenses while driving; people with retinitis pigmentosa are forbidden from driving at night; teenagers must reach a certain age and demonstrate certain skills before they obtain driver's licenses; people with a habit of driving after knocking back a dozen Budweisers lose their licenses.

Rather than looking at what distinguished two forms of retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, a progressive blinding disease, they looked for what they had in common: specifically, what genes were expressed at the later stages of disease.

«Any improvement in people with retinitis pigmentosa is big because it's an inexorable disease where you gradually go blind,» says Julia Haller, a professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University who has worked with the implant.

His initial RPB - funded research was aimed at furthering the vision research community's understanding of the mechanisms underlying macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, and other retinal degenerations.

At the ISSCR 2016 meeting in San Francisco, attendees heard two inspirational stories from Kristin Macdonald and Adrienne Bell - Cors of what it's like to live with diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), and sickle cell disease, respectively.

This project aims at the transplantation of retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.