Word: pigmentosa
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...made using Yamanaka's strategy. In fact, they seem to flourish more robustly than the traditional iPS cells, at least in lab tests that involve regrowing certain cells found in the retina. This could lead to a potential treatment to replace damaged eye cells in conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration...
...modest servings of fish each week--particularly salmon and bluefish--and you may reduce your risk of coronary heart disease 36%. Elsewhere, researchers at Louisiana State University reported that omega-3s can help protect cells in the retina, slowing the damage caused by such blinding diseases as retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration...
Marie started to lose her vision when a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa caused the rod and cone cells in her retina to degenerate. When rod and cone cells die off, the retina is rendered insensitive to light and the result is blindness. Marie's case followed the typical pattern. First her rod cells went, leaving only a slim tunnel of vision through which she could still manage to recognize objects and read with difficulty. But then as her cone cells failed, this last narrow window on the world snapped shut and she was left completely blind - even though...
Wilson expects Phase I trials using AAV to begin later this year, first for the treatment of hemophilia and later for a form of muscular dystrophy, a liver metabolic disease and retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disorder. "It's kind of a new wave," he says...
...like $300 million worth of works of art nailed to its mast. All bought, over a little more than two years, by Stephen A. Wynn, 56, who had never collected anything except casino real estate and golf courses before--and who is, moreover, gradually losing his sight to retinitis pigmentosa, an irreversible, degenerative eye disease...