Alabama Nonprofit Partners with Huntsville Genetics Company to Cure Blinding Diseases
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Two Alabama-based organizations are partnering to find cures for common diseases that cause blindness for millions of people worldwide.
Advancing Sight Network partnered with Kailos Genetics to find genetic causes of blinding eye diseases.
In an effort to help medical researchers develop new treatments and cures for blinding eye diseases, Advancing Sight Network and Kailos Genetics created the OcularGeneScreen®, a new genetic screening panel, to be used with eye tissue from post-mortem eye donors. The screening will help determine which genes are associated with eye diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, and Fuch s Dystrophy.