Episode 422
Eye drops to treat cataracts
Cataracts take years to form, but new research shows that this could be reversed in weeks.
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
November 7, 20154m 11s
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Show Notes
Cataracts are caused when proteins inside the lens of the eye come together. It's a condition that clouds the vision of approximately one hundred and eighty million people worldwide, with surgery to replace the lens with a plastic one currently the only solution. Twenty million sufferers around the world are blind because they cannot access surgical treatments. But help could be on it's way, as a potential non-surgical treatment method has been described in the journal Science this week. It follows another advancement in cataract science published recently in Nature. Roy Quinlan from the... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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