SparingVision (“the Company”), a genomic medicine company focused on ocular diseases, today announces a €44.5 million financing round. The round was led by 4BIO Capital (“4BIO”) and UPMC Ent...
Read moreMutaciones en el gen CERKL son una causa prevalente de dos distrofias hereditarias de retina, la retinitis pigmentosa y la distrofia de conos y bastones, pero el papel funcional de este gen en la reti...
Read moreIn the first months of 2020, positive results in gene therapy of X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) have been reported. XLRP is an inherited genetic disorder that causes progressive vision loss, mai...
Read moreUn estudio, publicado en la revista Nature, muestra la restauración parcial de la visión en ratones ciegos mediante un método que genera químicamente nuevos fotorreceptores, encargados de captar l...
Read moreGood nutrition is essential in the prevention of many pathologies and this applies to eyes too. In the case of ocular diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataracts, glaucoma and c...
Read moreOnce again this year the Barcelona Macula Foundation is adding its voice to World Retinitis Pigmentosa Day. As part of its commitment, the BMF is collaborating in the clinical trial the company Reneur...
Read moreFor another year, the Barcelona Macula Foundation (BMF) is participating in World Rare Disease Day, whose main aim is to sensitise, educate and inform the public about these pathologies and positio...
Read moreThanks to the clinical and genetic study made of all the patients with retinitis pigmentosa in Gipuzkoa by the UPV/EHU’s Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital Donostia, Biodonostia and Begisare, the...
Read moreLa retinitis pigmentosa es la distrofia de retina hereditaria más común y consiste en la degeneración progresiva de los fotorreceptores, produciendo pérdida del campo visual, y disminución progre...
Read moreLos sitemas de secuenciación masiva (NGS) desarrollados y aplicados en el CIPF phacen posible el análisis completo del exoma y disponer de diagnósticos precisos, fiables y económicos d...
Read moreThe research deals with functional studies of genes linked to a type of inherited blindness in order to identify potential therapeutic targets
Read moreA team led by Dr Pia Cosma, ICREA research professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, in collaboration with the Aragon Health Sciences Institute, the University of Zarag...
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