Developing an eye scanner that detects the true age of a person

 

 

16/6/2020

 

Scientists from Boston University American Medical School have successfully developed a revolutionary eye scanner that can discover a person's biological age by examining his eye lens.

The new technology will allow researchers to discover a person's real or biological age, rather than their longevity. According to the researchers, the chronological age, that is, the time one spends alive, does not adequately measure the rate of aging of a person already.

By knowing a person’s biological age and being able to track him throughout his life, the researchers say, it can help that person improve his or her medical care levels. The researchers also indicated that the biological age may differ from the human lifetime because it takes into account diet, activity levels and whether or not someone smokes.

The new study found that the developed eye scanner measures signals from proteins in the lens of the eye, thereby enabling biological aging to be detected and tracked.

"The lens contains proteins that accumulate changes associated with aging throughout life," said lead researcher Professor Lee Goldstein. These lens proteins provide a permanent record of each person's life history. Our eye scanner can decode this record of how a person is aging at a molecular level. ”

Researchers believe that these results pave the way for a clinical tool of critical importance to assess and track molecular aging in people.

It is mentioned that the study of the eye scanner was published on the website of the journal Gerontology and Biological Sciences, on the Internet, according to the British Daily Mail newspaper.