Dr Sunir Garg reflects on the recent American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in Orlando and expresses excitement on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect, treat, and transform the ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

The study focused on inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs), a group of genetic diseases that lead to progressive vision loss ...

Sunir Garg, MD, expresses excitement about attending AAO 2025 and focuses on several topics to be discussed. These include the benefits and potential vision risks of GLP-1 inhibitors in patients with ...

Every last Sunday of September marks World Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness and accelerating efforts to find a cure for this rare, inherited retinal disease ...

Kato Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the FDA has approved the company’s investigational new drug (IND) application to conduct human ...

In a genetic association study, investigators integrated data from genome-wide association studies of various disorders with retinal transcriptomic data. Findings revealed that the polygenic risk of ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Human eyes, like a fingerprint, are unique. They can say so much without saying a word. They can communicate our needs, desires, fears, and so much more. Our eyes can reveal a lot about us as ...

Population-based studies have shown retinal disorders are the most common cause of irreversible blindness in developed countries and the second most common cause of blindness after cataracts in ...

Golgi Neurosciences srl and Breye Therapeutics ApS have established a collaboration to develop Golgi’s P2X7 receptor antagonist program for retinal disorders. The companies have now closed the ...

In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers at Brown University suggest that gold nanoparticles (microscopic gold particles thousands of times thinner than a human hair) could ...