Macular Week is all about sensitizing and informing patients, associations, professionals and society of latest achievements on macular degenerative pathologies. In this publication, we will focus on ...
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Dr. Gemma Marfany (co-founder and scientific board member of DBGen) presented an oral communication in ARVO 2019 (held in Vancouver, 2-6 May) to show the most prominent results of the research that hi...
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RPGeNet is a network dedicated to provide a graphical platform that links retinal dystrophies causative genes with their molecular interactors. The aim of this network is granting researchers a tool t...
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Usher syndrome is a genetic disorder that presents recessive inheritance and is characterized by hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa, traits that may be total or partial.
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We firmly believe that the achievements of women in the field of hereditary eye diseases have to be made visible and acknowledged worldwide. For this reason, and to celebrate the International Women
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On the 30th November EDIT-101, developed by Editas Medicine, received the approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be the first in vivo CRISPR medicine administered to people anywhere i...
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A different gene therapy (QR-110, developed by the Dutch biotech company ProQR) is being evaluated for the treatment of people with another form of LCA caused by a specific mutation in the CEP290 gene...
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Our group has long been interested in identifying genes responsible for retinal dystrophy, and was the first to identify CERKL, a retinitis pigmentosa and cone-rod dystrophy causative gene. The precis...
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En el mes septiembre de 2018 se celebraron en Irlanda dos congresos muy relevantes para las enfermedades oculares, el Simposio Internacional sobre Degeneración de la Retina RD2018 y la Conferencia IS...
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Las fundadoras y directoras de la empresa DBGen Ocular Genomics, la Dra. Roser Gonzàlez y la Dra. Gemma Marfany, fueron invitadas a participar en el mes de junio como columnistas del número 32 de la...
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Recientemente (finales de mayo de 2018), investigadores de la University of Newcastle publicaron un artículo en que demuestran que la fabricación de córneas en el laboratorio mediante impresoras 3D...
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Rhodopsin is the main photopigment in rods. Many mutations in the rhodopsin gene translate into a misfolded nonfunctional protein that is toxic, thus causing photoreceptor death and premature retiniti...
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The research team observed changes in head circumf...
AtCDF3 gene induced greater production of sugars a...
Un estudio con datos de los últimos 35 años, ind...
En nuestro post hablamos sobre este interesante tipo de célula del...
Researchers have confirmed that patients with NK lymphocytes present i...
