If human testing proves successful as well, it could mean the end of surgery for cataract removal, replacing it with eye drops that dissolve the proteins that collect on the eye's lense.

According to an article in Futurism.com:

This treatment was created based on a naturally-occurring steroid, which is known as "lanosterol." Scientists recently discovered two siblings who had cataracts when their parents did not. These siblings shared a mutation that stopped the production of lanosterol. Notably, their parents did not have this mutation.

The scientists then thought, if the parents are producing lanosterol and don't have cataracts, then perhaps their kids have cataracts because they aren't producing lanosterol. Thus, adding lanosterol to the eye (or something that is similar to it) might stop the crystallin proteins from clumping together and forming cataracts.

The scientists tested this hypothesis on rabbits, and the results were very promising. After just a week, all but two of their 13 test subjects had gone from having severe cataracts to mild cataracts (or none at all). This drug was also tested on dogs, and it had the same results.

An update from The Health Edge noted that human clinical trials are underway, but that "it may be a few years before cataract-busting eye drops appear on store shelves." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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