Selina Powell

Features Editor

Selina Powell is the features editor of Optometry Today (OT), where she writes in-depth features for the print journal and is responsible for the development of supplements in collaboration with commercial partners. Selina also covers eye health research for OT, keeping practitioners up to date with the latest developments through the Science & vision section of the website and the clinical round-up in print. She talks to optometrists about their pursuits outside of the testing room for OT’s regular Secret life article, while her My vision feature showcases the experiences of people with conditions that affect their sight.

Selina worked as a journalist for weekly and daily newspapers in New Zealand before moving to the UK in 2016.

More articles by Selina Powell

UCL scientists seek to advance gene editing

New research will involve applying CRISPR gene editing technology to mini retinas grown in the lab
- Research
Genetics Treatment Sight impairment
Fish eyes shed insight into evolution of the connection between eyes and brain

New research suggests the network of nerves linking the eyes and the brain is 100 million years older than previously thought
- Research
Genetics Neuroscience
UCL scientists seek to advance gene editing

New research will involve applying CRISPR gene editing technology to mini retinas grown in the lab
- Research
Genetics Treatment Sight impairment
Researchers identify 50 new eye colour genes

A study involving 195,000 people across Europe and Asia has found that the genetics of eye colour is more complex than previously thought
- Research
Genetics
FDA grants genetic treatment fast-track status

A genetic therapy for achromatopsia has received fast track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration
- Research
Treatment Genetics
Optometrists encouraged to make patients aware of dry AMD study

“The larger the number of patients we observe and treat, the more we will learn and the faster we will reach a cure for this devastating condition”
- Research
AMD Genetics Treatment Universities
Nobel Prize awarded to scientists who discovered ‘genetic scissors’

The gene editing technology CRISPR has potential in the treatment of inherited eye conditions
- Research
Genetics Treatment
Retinal sensitivity improves among RP patients following gene therapy

A gene therapy company reported results from a study involving patients with x-linked retinitis pigmentosa at the Euretina 2020 Virtual Congress
- Research
Retina Treatment Genetics
Researchers gather saliva samples to unravel genetics of dry AMD

A study that aims to understand the genetic basis for dry AMD is recruiting 6000 patients with geographic atrophy
- Research
AMD Genetics Treatment Universities
Gene therapy: “It provides insight into the mechanisms of life itself”

Professor Robert MacLaren on the exciting potential of CRISPR gene editing and patients seeing stars for the first-time following treatment
- Practitioner stories
Genetics Treatment

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