A groundbreaking new study out of Australia brings researchers one step closer to preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or 'SIDS.'Local doctors say this isn't a cure but it does offer new clues in the fight against the mysterious condition. KETV NewsWatch 7 spoke with a woman who lost her daughter to SIDS 11 years ago.She still carries that pain and she hopes the research can lead to answers so no one else has to through what she did.Lisa Barton knows the immense heartbreak of losing a child to sudden infant death syndrome. Her 3-month-old daughter Macie died from SIDS in 2011. "She was at daycare and was put down for a nap, she was put in a swing and never woke up," said Barton. And she's not the only one.Dr. Ann Anderson-Berry with Children's Hospital and Nebraska Medicine says there 88 children die from SIDS for every 100,000 live births in Nebraska.That's about 22 children a year.So the news about SIDS research has Barton excited. "If anything, it's a step in maybe someday finding a cure, or someday being able to prevent it so another family doesn't have to experience this," Barton said.Dr. Anderson-Berry says she's seen information in a well-respected medical journal over the last day or two from Australian researchers looking at potential associations with infant factors relating to SIDS. "What they found was an association between the lower levels of a very complex chemical compound called Butyrylcholinesterase. And they found if that level was lower in the two to the three-day range, then those infants were more likely to die of SIDS in the first six months of life," Dr. Anderson-Berry said.Although not a cure, Dr. Anderson-Berry said this gives them a place to start. "It gives you something to go off of it gives you knowledge about which questions to ask next," said Dr. Anderson-Berry. And hopefully, those questions will eventually lead to an answer Barton will always be waiting for. "If we get to a point that we have a definite this is why this happens, this is going to for sure bring me peace. Because then I'm going to know for sure," Barton said.Barton says despite these findings parents and caregivers still need to follow safe sleep practices.Like putting your infants on their backs to sleep and making sure there is nothing in the crib.