Tuesday, 10 May 2022 (YJC)_ Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced that despite sanctions experts have succeeded in making screening kits for newborn babies.
In his remarks on Tuesday, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami announced that despite sanctions, Iranian experts have succeeded in making screening kits for newborn babies.
“Iran is among top five countries in manufacturing screening kits for neonatal metabolic disorders,” he said and added “Iranian scientists in the AEOI and the cooperation of the Technology Development Center of Azad University in Markazi Province made their outmost and acquired Oxygen-18 along with producing heavy water in molecular engineering.
To elaborate more on the issue, he noted “The Oxygen-18 is a natural and stable isotope of oxygen, Iranians have reached the point that they can produce screening kits for newborn kids. This project took one year.”
According to the AEOI chief, Food and Drug Administration of Iran has issued permissions for the kits to be distributed and now there are some plans to export it to other states.
Newborn Screening involves the screening of newborns in the first days of their lives for inborn errors of metabolism and certain disorders.