Sentences with phrase «pigmentosa using»

Then there was the experiment that cured mice of the eye disease retinitis pigmentosa using nanotechnology.

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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.

But it was another three decades before Klassen — who has used retinal progenitor cells to restore vision in mice, cats, dogs and pigs — could conduct human trials involving retinitis pigmentosa.

Samantha de Silva and colleagues used a viral vector to express a light sensitive protein, melanopsin, in the residual retinal cells in mice which were blind from retinitis pigmentosa, the most common cause of blindness in young people.

To demonstrate VarScan's capabilities, we used data from a collaboration with Stephen Daiger and colleagues, who are resequencing candidate genes in a cohort of families with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP).

Researchers have used gene therapy to safely restore vision in three young adults with a form of retinitis pigmentosa known as Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA), an inherited retinal disorder that reduces...

AGTC plans to use the net proceeds of the offering primarily to continue the development, preclinical and clinical trials of its product candidates for treating X-linked retinoschisis, achromatopsia and X-linked retinitis pigmentosa.