Largest IVF Bovine Embryo Production Center Inaugurated in Iran
“The knowledge-based Sina Fanavaran Mandager company plays an important role in improving the productivity of Iran's livestock industry by utilizing the latest technologies,” Nouri said, addressing the inauguration ceremony.
He described the center as one of the key complexes to ensure the country's food security, and said, “The knowledge-based company is the largest IVF bovine embryo production center in West Asia and, by utilizing the latest technologies, plays an effective role in improving the productivity of Iran's livestock industry.”
The minister visited different parts of the complex, including the egg collection hall, clean rooms for laboratory embryo production, breeding stock holding pens, and the hall for calves produced through IVF, lauding the center's advanced equipment and infrastructure.
In a relevant development in May, an Iranian knowledge-based company had also succeeded in indigenizing organic selenium which can accumulate in the cell mass of yeast grown in a culture medium containing mineral selenium and producing semen diluent for animal use.
“Organic selenium is used in veterinary medicine and food industry as a semen diluent to preserve endangered species or to freeze the semen of animals like cows, horses, sheep, goats, poultry, fish, etc.,” Mojtaba Emamverdi, the managing director of the knowledge-based company stationed at the Science and Technology Park of University of Tehran.
“Organic selenium is made by modeling nature, in which sulfur is replaced by selenium in amino acid structures containing sulfur. This product (semen diluent) has been patented and allows semens to be stored longer,” he added.
Emamverdi said that these substances play a role in providing the required energy, protecting semen from temperature damage, reducing physical and chemical stress caused by cooling, freezing, and melting semens, and finally creating a suitable environment for semens to survive temporarily.
“One of the most important advantages of semen freezing is speeding up the implementation of special breeding plans, using superior breeds with higher production, easy transfer of semen from production and collection centers to artificial insemination centers, reproduction outside the production season, and preventing the extinction of endangered species,” he noted
“Also the diluents can be used to freeze semen and use it for artificial insemination to increase production and livestock and poultry breeding in Iran,” Emamverdi said.
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