Researchers find eye development error causing cataracts, glaucoma

Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 13:31 in Health & Medicine

A Jackson Laboratory research team, working in collaboration with researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, show that RNA granules--key players in messenger RNA (mRNA) processing--can affect eye development, leading to juvenile cataracts in humans and mice.

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