Scientists developed an eye scanner that can track and detect biological aging for the first time by analyzing proteins in human eyes using special lenses. According to Daily Mail, scientists deployed a "game-changing" eye scanner that can detect an individual's age by examining their eyes' lenses.
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According to Daily Mail, the new study discovered that biological aging can be detected by measuring signals from proteins in the eye lens through a specialized eye scanner. Professor Lee Goldstein, the corresponding author of the study, stated that understanding of aging was held back by the absence of clinical tools to evaluate how people age.
Goldstein claimed that, quantitively, evaluating how each person is aging at the molecular level to better maximize their health throughout life is important.
"The lens contains proteins that accumulate aging-related changes throughout life," he said.
"These lens proteins provide a permanent record of each person's life history of aging. Our eye scanner can decode this record of how a person is aging at the molecular level," further explained Goldstein.
The researchers of the study believed that the new technology will be a potential game-changing clinical tool for tracking and assessing people's molecular aging. An appointment at Boston University College of Engineering is being held by Goldstein, stating that progress is already at work to develop ways on how to use the tool.
"These lens proteins provide a permanent record of each person's life history of aging. Our eye scanner can decode this record of how a person is aging at the molecular level," he explained.
