Scientists Restore Kids' Hearing with Gene Therapy

Scientists Restore Kids' Hearing with Gene Therapy

TEHRAN (ANA)- Using an experimental gene therapy, a team led by Chinese scientists has recovered the hearing of five children born with a genetic defect that had left them profoundly deaf.
Sugar in Brain May Increase Antifungal Drug Tolerance

Sugar in Brain May Increase Antifungal Drug Tolerance

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently revealed that glucose in the brain may elicit antifungal tolerance in a certain fungus, contributing to the treatment of fungal meningitis.
Scientists Develop New Biodiesel Fuel Production Technology

Scientists Develop New Biodiesel Fuel Production Technology

TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists at Nanjing Normal University have developed new technology allowing the manufacture of biodiesel fuel with higher biomass content, which could reach over 40 percent compared with the global average content of less than 10 percent.
Iran-Made Homeostasis Product Stops Heavy Bleeding Quickly

Iran-Made Homeostasis Product Stops Heavy Bleeding Quickly

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian specialists at a knowledge-based company which cooperates with ‘Faraz’ technology accelerator have succeeded in making special homeostasis products which stop bleeding quickly.
Equipping 500 Laboratories of Iran FDA with Domestically-Made Devices

Equipping 500 Laboratories of Iran FDA with Domestically-Made Devices

TEHRAN (ANA)- The head of Iran Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) said that equipping hundreds of laboratories nationwide that operate under the auspicious of his organization is handed over to domestic knowledge-based companies.
Human Cells Transformed into Tiny Biological Robots

Human Cells Transformed into Tiny Biological Robots

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have been found to encourage the growth of neurons across a region of damage in a lab dish.
Tiny Traps Can Provide New Knowledge about Difficult-to-Treat Diseases

Tiny Traps Can Provide New Knowledge about Difficult-to-Treat Diseases

TEHRAN (ANA)- The mechanisms behind how the proteins interact with each other are difficult to study, but now researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new method for capturing many proteins in nano-sized traps.
Scientists Discover New Achilles Heel of Leukemia Cells in Children

Scientists Discover New Achilles Heel of Leukemia Cells in Children

TEHRAN (ANA)- A team led by Jan-Henning Klusmann from the Department of Pediatrics and Dirk Heckl from the Institute for Experimental Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Goethe University Frankfurt discovered an unusual "Achilles heel" in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells in children.
Iranian Scientists Find More Similarities between Genes of Human, Zebrafish

Iranian Scientists Find More Similarities between Genes of Human, Zebrafish

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers in a recent study reviewed similarities of KLF2, MSX1 and SOX9 genes expression in zebrafish and human.
Scientists Identify Causes of Unexplained Male Infertility

Scientists Identify Causes of Unexplained Male Infertility

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers from the University of Coimbra (UC) have published a study identifying causes of male infertility that were previously classified as "unexplained".
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