Science and Technology

Iranian scientists at Sharif University of Technology have designed a sensor to detect cancerous cells in medical diagnostic laboratories and research centres.

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has highlighted the rapid progress that the science and technology parks have made in the country over the past couple of years, saying such valuable asset has helped Iran cope with the coronavirus epidemic. 

Iranian researchers have developed ventilators with a price half that of foreign-made ones.

An Iranian company has developed a homegrown technology to produce a special fabric with nanocoating to manufacture N95 and N99 masks and fulfill the...

An Iranian knowledge-based company has manufactured an advanced thermal camera for fever screening in the coronavirus patients. The coronavirus detection thermal camera, developed by an...

The commander of the IRGC aerospace force says that the Islamic Republic carries out its space work without attracting much attention because the enemy seeks to monitor it.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has praised the launch of a military satellite by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps saying that such moves show the country is continuing its activities despite the spread of the coronavirus.

Iran has the potential to become an exporter of vaccines if its potentialities in the vaccine industry are utilized, the country’s Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology argues.

Iranian researchers have developed ventilators as well as equipment to control pressure inside lungs for coronavirus patients.

A senior Iranian official says the coronavirus epidemic is now under control in the country thanks to people’s cooperation and efforts by knowledge-based companies and other institutions to produce the required equipment.

Iran has expressed its preparedness to send its homegrown smart coronavirus diagnosis system to all countries in the world, especially the Muslim ones, to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology has inaugurated an international health technology complex that includes innovation acceleration centers in Tehran, and has also unveiled six homegrown products used for preventing and treating the novel coronavirus.

A senior Iranian official says technical capabilities and features of a smart system recently developed by domestic experts to detect the coronavirus will soon be announced.

Iran's IRGC says its experts have, for the first time in the world, developed a smart system capable of detecting COVID-19 and other types of viruses in the surrounding environment by creating a magnetic field.

Iranian researchers specializing in the cell science have launched a project to use cell-therapy for treatment of the COVID-19 infection, and concluded that the injection of Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into coronavirus patients can be effective in treating the disease.

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology says the country is able to produce 40 advanced domestically-made ventilators every day to meet the needs amid the coronavirus epidemic.

Iran’s vice-president has launched the production line for two types of coronavirus diagnostic kits, namely PCR-based and serologic kits, at a knowledge-based company.

Researchers at Materials and Energy Research Institute of Iran have developed a device to detect and spot narcotics and explosives in one to two seconds.

Iran has implemented a plasma therapy project to treat patients infected with COVID-19, making it the first country to have used this method for coronavirus treatment.

President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has called for plans to exchange experiences with the other countries and take advantage of their initiatives for the fight against the novel coronavirus.

Iran’s Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics has, for the first time, produced modern ion masks amid the coronavirus outbreak.

An infectious diseases specialist says Iranian companies have the ability and are ready to produce the Japanese drug Favipiravir, also known as Avigan, which is said to be effective in the treatment of COVID-19.

An Iranian knowledge-based company is using a domestically-developed radiation system to sterilize masks and other products including foodstuff.

Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari says hundreds of research projects have been planned to determine the nature and behaviour of the coronavirus, adding that more than 2,000 clinical trials have been conducted for the treatment of COVID-19.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the country is attaining self-sufficiency in the production of a broad range of commodities thanks to the good investment in the development of knowledge-based companies.