While there is no cure for blindness and macular degeneration, scientists have accelerated the process to find a cure by visualizing the inner workings of the eye and its diseases at the cellular level.

Can a blind person ever see again?

Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding what happens to the human brain after someone goes blind. The study out of the University of Pisa, Italy, found that the adult brain can actually learn to “see again” many years after a person went totally blind.

Is blind curable?

While 80% of visual impairment can be prevented or cured, there remains 20% of cases for which there is currently no way of curing. A range of conditions exists where those who develop them are faced with a gradual loss of vision until their impairment is so severe that they are effectively blind.