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He said a team of researchers at the INACC have recently used spirulina, a type of cyanobacteria which is often referred to as blue-green algae, to produce drinks.

“Spirulina is native to Mexico. We managed to mass produce it at the INACC and have now used it to make juice,” he added.

The alga is high in protein and minerals and can boost your defense against allergies, diabetes, and other conditions. It is high in vitamins and iron, too, he added.

According to him, the alga juice has an astringent flavor and is produced at the Science and Technology Park of the University of Tehran.

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The technology-enhanced garment – dubbed ‘phyjamas’ – will be presented at the Ubicomp 2019 conference in London, this week.

A paper detailing the work, oversaw by Professor Trisha L. Andrew and scientist Deepak Ganesan, will be published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, according to the report.

“The challenge we faced was how to obtain useful signals without changing the aesthetics or feel of the textile,” Andrew told Daily Mail.

Ganesan adds, “Our insight was that even though sleepwear is worn loosely, there are several parts of such a textile that are pressed against the body due to our posture and contact with external surfaces. This includes pressure exerted by the torso against a chair or bed, pressure when the arm rests on the side of the body while sleeping, and light pressure from a blanket over the sleepwear.”

“Such pressured regions of the textile are potential locations where we can measure ballistic movements caused by heartbeats and breathing and these can be used to extract physiological variables.”

The team has designed a new fabric-based pressure sensor and combined that with a triboelectric sensor – one activated by a change in physical contact – to develop a distributed sensor suite that could be integrated into loose-fitting clothing like pajamas.

They also developed data analytics to fuse signals from many points that took into account the quality of the signal coming in from each location. The authors report that this combination allowed them to detect physiological signals across many different postures.

They performed multiple user studies in both controlled and natural settings and showed that they can extract heartbeat peaks with high accuracy, breathing rate with less than one beat per minute error, and perfectly predict sleep posture.

“We expect that these advances can be particularly useful for monitoring elderly patients, many of whom suffer from sleep disorders,'” says Andrew.

This work was enhanced by Ganesan and Andrew’s affiliation with UMass Amherst’s Institute of Applied Life Sciences (IALS), which focuses on translating life science research into products that improve human health.

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“In the first phase, we are planning to grow the organs inside the body of an animal. For that purpose, we need an animal that does not have that particular organ to being with. For this project, we are going to grow a human pancreas inside a goat’s body,” he said.

“We are going to work on a goat whose body does not grow a pancreas on its own. For that, we need to produce embryos that do not have the genes for growing a pancreas. Then, we will transfer the embryos to receiving goats. This phase will be completed within six months, and the cells are ready,” he added.

The project is a joint endeavor between the recombinant proteins group and the embryology group at the biotechnology research institute of Royan, he noted.

Royan is Iran’s leading center for Stem Cell research established in 1991.

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To treat the patients using this technology, Aghajani continues, they need first to undergo some medical imaging so that engineers would be able to extract the detailed information and design the exact dimensions of the needed bone. Then, it will be printed and implanted in the patient’s body, he noted.

Up to now, five patients suffering from maxillofacial injuries and also another patient having foot problems have been treated using this technology and results of their surgeries are fully satisfying, he added.

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Phonons have previously been impossible to measure because traditional microphones are not nearly sensitive enough to pick them up. A microphone works by detecting when a sound wave interacts with a membrane, but the phonons are so small that they can’t be detected individually due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Instead of relying on indirect measurement of sound waves, the scientists built a device which measures the energy of phonons directly using minuscule resonators which act like mirrors for sound. The device can trap the photons and measure the vibrations they cause, with different energy levels corresponding to different numbers of phonons.

The device is described in a paper in Nature, and could be a step towards the creation of a new type of quantum computer. The ability to detect small packets of sound could allow for devices which encode information using sound energy, allowing the storage of massive amounts of data in a small machine.

A phonon quantum computer could be even more compact and efficient than a quantum computer which uses photons, or particles of light, as phonons are easier to manipulate than photons. If scientists can create a quantum computer using phonons, it could store more information in a smaller space than using photons.

“Right now, people are using photons to encode these states. We want to use phonons, which brings with it a lot of advantages,” said the lead author of the paper, Amir Safavi-Naeini, an Iranian assistant professor of applied physics at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. “Our device is an important step toward making a ‘mechanical quantum mechanical’ computer.”

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Before Iran, countries such as US, UK, Switzerland, and Japan had developed this technology, which has been now indigenized thanks to researchers of Sharif University.

“This technology earlier emerged in advanced countries and some four years ago, we entered the field. And now we have produced the required equipment and the tests were run successfully,” said Movahhedy.

These printers can have a wide range of applications in electronics and bio-medical industries as they can reduce the cost and size of next-generation products.

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According to Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council (INIC), a research team at the Institute of Materials and Energy (MERC) has used a coating of sol-gel derived nano-hydroxyapatite–polylactic acid (nHA-PLA) thin films on 316L stainless steel followed by continuous CO2 laser treatment. This process has enhanced the biocompatibility and corrosion-resistance leading to a reduction of the side-effects of implants in the human body.

The results of this study were published in the Journal of Surface and Coatings Technology with an impact factor of 2.9.

Institute of Materials and Energy, Also known as The Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC) was founded in 1971 as the “Center for Materials Properties “, which has research mission in materials engineering, new energies, electronics and environmental pollution. MERC, with 80 faculty members, keeps training specialists through holding workshops and special courses following the motivation to achieve the development in scientific, educational and research activities.

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According to Dr. Roghani, the head of the research team, the novel ink has both photochromic and fluorochromic features which give the product more stability and security.

The size and morphology of the latex particles were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering and their functionality were characterized by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, according to Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council (INIC)

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The Award is established in memory of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the Iranian mathematician and astronomer, and is dedicated to recognizing outstanding scientific achievements made by researchers, inventors and innovators from all over the world.

The international category includes laureates from the UK, Switzerland, Greece, China and the United States.

The laureates for the international section of the 32nd Khwarizmi International Award are:

Prof. Habib Zaidi (Switzerland) for his paper on advanced hybrid imaging PET/MR system

Prof. John Yates (US) for his paper on the study of proteins function using mass spectrometry and proteomics

Prof. Dongyuan Zhao (China) for his paper on the interfacial assembly and synthesis of ordered mesoporous materials for applications

Prof. George Chrousos (Greece) for his paper on the Biology and medicine of stress and stress-related disorders

Prof. Stephen Holgate (UK) for his paper on understanding the pathobiology of asthma and allied disorders

Prof. Peidong Yang (USA) for his paper on semiconductor nanowire technology for energy conversion and storage

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