Supernatural gift
Eyes are the blessings of the supernatural really.It is the eye which visualizes the aesthetics of world.It is the eyes which makes felt, the world as beautiful and glorious.No one can deny the reality of eyes.It is the blind who has the importance of eyes really. That is the value of eyes.

Blemish of blindness

The blindness is one of the diseases which make a person more disappointing and sad.The blind man has the strong ambitions of seeing this beautiful world and symbols, such as trees, mountains, rivers, sky, moon, star, sun etc.That is the natural beauty which attracts the blind person.

Most expensive surgery

There have been many surgeries and operations regarding the blind people around the world.Most of them are unsuccessful.The main reason is the lack of resources and treatment.The blind’s operation is the considered the most expensive surgery in the world. Most of the people could not make the surgery of their lovable blinds.That is the evil reality of this world.

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NEW YORK - Scientists for the very first time have used gene therapy to improve eye sight in people with a mild type of blindness, a development experts called it advance step for the experimental technique.

Some vision was restored in four out of the six young people who were treated with the technique, teams of researchers in the United States and Britain reported Sunday.Two of the volunteers who could only see hand movements were now able to read some lines of an eye chart after two weeks.

Stephen Rose, chief research officer of the Foundation Fighting Blindness said, “It’s a phenomenal breakthrough,” Experts said that technique has the capability to restore blindness from inherited eye diseases.

“I think this is incredibly exciting,” said Dr. Jean Bennett, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania and a leader of the Philadelphia study.“It’s the beginning of a whole new era of studies.”

Couple of teams of scientists, working apart from each other, each tested gene replacement therapy in three patients, suffering from mild hereditary eye disease called “Leber’s congenital amaurosis,” Until this disease is incurable, which symptoms appears early in infants and causes vision loss and at night blindness.

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