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Fluid Lens may Help Regain Youthful Vision to People With Failing Eyes

by Sreeraman on February 13, 2009 at 3:01 PM General Health News

A Government research body in Australia hopes that it may soon be possible to restore vision to people with failing eyes by removing their old lenses, and injecting new plastic ones.

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Researchers at CSIRO Molecular and Health Technology came to this conclusion after they found that a lens material has the properties of a young person's lens.

They say that the new polymer developed by them may one day be used to improve the sight of people with age-related short-sightedness.

"It has the refractive index properties that are required in the human eye," ABC Science quoted Dr Keith McLean, who heads up CSIRO's biomedical device research, as saying.

While making a presentation on the research at a recent biomaterials conference at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, the researcher said that the lens in each eye hardens and stiffens as people age, making it more difficult to focus.

"Because it stiffens, the muscles in the eye are no longer able to squeeze the capsule or bag which contains the lens so you therefore lose the ability to close focus," said McLean.

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