Nov 1, 2012 PXE News
November 1, 2012
PXE International launches Ideation Challenge at Innocentive
Evaluating hypotheses and suggesting experiments for a rare disease
November 1, 2012
PXE International launches Ideation Challenge at Innocentive
Evaluating hypotheses and suggesting experiments for a rare disease
October 23, 2012
9th Annual North American ABC Meeting, Frederick, MD, September 27-28, 2012
The 9th Annual North American ABC Meeting held last month at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, MD featured presentations from scientists studying the role of ATP-binding cassette proteins in human disease.
September 25, 2012
7th European Elastin Meeting, Ghent, Belgium, September 1-4, 2012
Researchers from all over the world met in Ghent, Belgium to discuss the current progress and controversies in the structure and biology of elastin as well as in diseases of elastic fibers, with several of the presentations related to PXE.
Avastin and Lucentis are Equivalent in Treating AMD: CATT Two-Year Results
In July 2012, Ophthalmology published the final results from the two-year Comparison of Age-related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials (CATT) clinical trial comparing Lucentis and Avastin treatments for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
July 13, 2012
Lay summary: Acquired pseudoxanthoma elasticum after liver transplant
Recently researchers examined three cases involving young women who acquired PXE after liver transplants, even though they previously had no detectable signs or symptoms of the disease.