TEHRAN (ANA)- A study by Johns Hopkins Medicine and NIH’s National Institute on Aging on 40 older adults with obesity and insulin resistance found that both intermittent fasting and a USDA-approved healthy diet improved brain function and metabolic health, with intermittent fasting showing slightly better results in cognitive improvements.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers succeeded in production of optimized recombinant viral vectors capable of effective and less invasive transfer of the RPGR gene by intravitreal injection for gene therapy and prevention of blindness in patients with the hereditary disease of retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

TEHRAN (ANA)- Researchers discovered that a protein called the J chain, which helps the immune system function properly, originally came from a different family of genes known as CXCL chemokines.

TEHRAN (ANA)- A senior Iranian official announced that the country is standing among the first 12 countries of the world which have had the highest number of scientific articles in the field of biotechnology.

TEHRAN (ANA)- An Iranian researcher and his teammates at the University of Tehran are working on producing a synthetic fuel in a laboratory environment with the least pollution level through a simulator and combining percentages of materials together.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers succeeded in designing and building a Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) microscope which provides both quantitative and beautiful images of living cells.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers at a knowledge-based company succeeded in making a kit which extracts DNA from saliva and enjoys a stabilizer solution to prolong the saliva’s stability for high-quality DNA.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Research from Weill Cornell Medicine reveals that astrocyte receptors impact cognitive functions differently in males and females, suggesting a need for sex-specific approaches in developing treatments targeting these brain cells.

TEHRAN (ANA)- An Iranian student at Islamic Azad University’s Sahr-e Kord branch succeeded in making new biological products by using innovative methods in bioinformatics.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Columbia University’s research has uncovered a longstanding error in identifying gut stem cells, finding the true stem cells in a different site, which could revolutionize regenerative medicine by applying these findings to other organs.