TEHRAN (ANA)- A study from UC San Diego reveals that obesity causes mitochondrial dysfunction in fat cells, driven by a specific gene and deactivating this gene in mice prevents obesity, suggesting new treatment approaches.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers succeeded in making a technological device that is capable to concurrently decellularize and cellularize the transplanted tissue, and prevents graft rejection and side effects of immunosuppressive drugs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.