Scientists from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst have discovered a new technology that may lead to a non-surgical treatment for cataract.
The research of polymer physicist Dr. Murugappan Muthukumar and former graduate student Ben Mohr are reportedly focused on how light passes through the lens of the eye, and how proteins and biopolymers within the lens scatter light. Through their work, the scientists were able to uncover the relationship between protein clumping — which would form a cataract — and its molecular basis, in the hopes of finding a way to correct it.
UMass Amherst has now recently licensed this new technology to Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in the hopes of forming a treatment for cataracts and presbyopia.
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Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst