Iran-Made Kit Able to Detect 50 Metabolic Diseases in Infants
“This product is designed to screen newborns in the first days of life and is able to separate at-risk newborns from healthy individuals so that disease management can begin in the very first days of life,” said Mohsen Ehsanfar, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
He explained that during this period, serious diseases can be identified and treated by analyzing metabolites and examining the newborn's metabolic status.
“A limited number of countries, including Germany and the US, produce such kits, and the global market is practically monopolized by one or two companies. However, the Iranian model is high-quality and so much competitive in price,” Ehsanfar said.
“The designed kit, with the ability to measure analytes such as amino acids and acylcarnitines, is capable of identifying more than 50 metabolic diseases included in Iran’s newborn screening panel,” he noted.
In a relevant development in 2023, a knowledge-based company in Iran had succeeded in producing and supplying various diagnostic molecular biology kits to the domestic and foreign markets.
“Our company is active in producing all types of molecular biology kits, viral diagnostic kits, cancer diagnosis panels and all kinds of fungal diseases. Our company is also the only firm that produces primers and probes in Iran,” said Ramin Fazzel, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
He added that the company is a supplier of all laboratory, research and quality control services, and is a producer of various biotechnological kits for medical diagnosis laboratories, students, faculty members, research centers, companies and private and public institutions.
“This knowledge-based company has ISO13485:2016-ISO9001:2015-ISO17025:2017 certificates and Iran’s Food and Drug Administration’s GLP license,” Fazzel said.
“HCD Detection, HCD Extraction, DNA Extraction, RNA Extraction, Enzyme (Taq Polymerase - Reverse Transcriptase - T4 Ligase) kits and other products are being manufactured by the company,” he noted.
Fazzel stated that the products of his knowledge-based company are also exported to Armenia and Iraq, adding that the two mentioned countries are customers of products like CHO Extraction, Ladder, Agarose and DNA Extraction kits.
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