Brain Tumor Diagnosis with Iran-Made Natural Biomarkers
“Biomarkers are used for MRI and CT scans. During these steps, a series of radioactive substances are injected into the patient's body, but researchers in our company have succeeded in manufacturing biomarkers that are completely natural and whose raw materials are found in Iran,” Heydar Jelviz, the secretary of the National Diabetes Association and chairman of the Board of Directors of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“At present, we are in the stage of receiving a license. The clinical stages of this product are also proceeding in line with the licensing stages and will soon be presented to the market,” he added.
“Biomarkers are used in most cases to measure the presence and, in some cases, the progression of a disease or the effectiveness of a specific treatment. When this natural substance is injected into the body, it sits on brain cells. The marked cells are distinguished from other cells and show with high precision in which area of the brain a tumor, abnormal gland, or hemorrhage has developed,” Jelviz said.
In a relevant development in 2022, an Iranian professor at Islamic Azad University said he had also made a biosensor that can identify biomarkers that cause neurological diseases.
“My initiative is a biosensor that can detect biomarkers behind brain-related and neurological diseases," Mehzad Mirzaei, an assistant chemical engineering professor at Islamic Azad University told ANA.
The professor explained more about his biosensor that it uses biological body fluids such as saliva to detect the disease.
He noted that a number of biomarkers that signal the diseases such as Alzheimer or Parkinson or other diseases related to the brain and nerves can be detected by the sensor, adding, “Nanotechnology is used to make the sensor in order to be highly accurate and precise".
“We are a team of 3 people and we hope that because the field we have been working on is very much at the cutting edge knowledge and advanced and needs a lot of support to yield results, therefore, we hope to receive good support from the related officials. These areas are still unknown and the importance of working at the cutting edge knowledge is still brand new, therefore these projects should be publicized a lot because that work is a very big achievement", Mirzaei went on to say.
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