Examples include facilitating siRNA transportation, enhancing DNA transfection, and potentially targeting tumors.

Cholestene has been used as a dietary supplement and is often sold with red yeast rice to promote cholesterol management.

However, these products contain a hidden drug ingredient, lovastatin, that may cause serious side effects when combined with other medications, such as muscle injury.

[4] In biological research, 3β-amino-5-cholestene (also referred to as aminocholesterol), a 3β-derivative of cholestene, has been shown to selectively enhance the magnetic susceptibility of lanthanide-chelating bicelles.

[5] When an aminocholesterol conjugate is used with different lanthanide ions, it can possibly fine tune a bicelle's magnetic susceptibility.