Beacon Therapeutics raises $170m for a pivotal trial of its gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited cause of blindness.

TauRx Pharma's effort to bring a tau-targeting drug for Alzheimer's disease (AD) to market has been a marathon, with a number of setbacks over the years, but the company reckons it may finally be ...

The retina is a layered structure that lines the inner surface of the eye. It consists of layers of neurons: light-sensitive photoreceptor cells, bipolar cells, horizontal cells, amacrine cells ...