Iranian Scientists Discover Blindness Gene

For the first time in the world, Iranian scientists have succeeded in discovering the gene responsible for a common type of blindness, prevalent in North Eastern parts of the country.

Latest figures have revealed that one in every family living in Esfarayen, in North Khorasan province, are blind, indicating that the blindness gene runs in these families. Scientists and officials had long considered climate and environmental factors as the main cause contributing to the condition.

According to Normohammad Ghiasvand, a genetic professor in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, the high prevalence of a certain gene accounts for the considerably high number of blind people in this area.

“Physicians can simply detect the presence of the gene in blood samples and even in the amniotic fluid sample of the unborn. The test is accurate and inexpensive,” Ghiasvand said.

He went on to say that the genetic examination of the parents can prevent the birth of blind children.

Children born with such a disease are believed to be healthy at the time of birth. Their cornea, however, darkens gradually and the child would not be able to detect light, even sun rays, in the first days of his/her life.

The autosomal recessive disease is characterized by optic nerve atrophy and retinal detachment caused by tears in the inner nervous tunic of the eye.

Source: Press TV

Source : http://www.iranreview.org/content/blogcategory/17/39/

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IRAN'S ACHIEVEMENTS ARE SOURCE OF PRIDE FOR MUSLIMS - ALGERIAN MINISTER.

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Hegel said

...In Persia first arises that light which shines itself and illuminates what is around... The principle of development begins with the history of Persia; this constitutes therefore the begining of history.
                                                                                                                           

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Loose Change

 

The events after september 11th are my reasons to write this post . ( Iraq war , Afghanistan war  etc. )

I think these reasons are enough , because  these countries are our neighbours and each event in these countries affects on my country .

Loose Change is a series of films released between 2005 and 2009 which argue that the September 11, 2001 attacks were planned and conducted by elements within the United States government, and base the claims on perceived anomalies in the historical record of the attacks. The films were written and directed by Dylan Avery, and produced by Korey Rowe, Jason Bermas and Matthew Brown.

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Persian or Arabic Mathematics!

Before I start criticizing to the great works of two Scottish mathematicians who have worked on the history of mathematics, I congratulate for their works and I express that I have tried to seek for reality and there in no place for nationalism in my critics.

The question is that why most of the Iranian (Persian) scholars in the history are considered as Arabs. For example while Khayyam is considered as a Persian poet, he is introduced as an Arab mathematician!

Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Contributions to mathematics; Founder of Algebra

Summary
Al-Khwarizmi (Mohammad ebne Mūsā Khwārazmī محمد بن موسی خوارزمی) was a Persian^[1][2][3] mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm^[2][4][5], then part of the Persian Empire (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Consequently he is considered by many to be the father of algebra,^[6] a title some scholars assign to Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic, on the Indian numerals, introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world in the twelfth century.^[5] He revised and updated Ptolemy's Geography as well as writing several works on astronomy and astrology.
His contributions not only made a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations used to solve quadratic equations, as described in his book.

Born	c. 780	Died	c. 850

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Iranian Muslim Philosopher

980-1037

 

Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina was born in 980 A.D. at Afshaneh near Bukhara. The young Bu Ali received his early education in Bukhara, and by the age of ten had become well versed in the study of the Qur'an and various sciences. He started studying philosophy by reading various Greek, Muslim and other books on this subject and learnt logic and some other subjects from Abu Abdallah Natili, a famous philosopher of the time. While still young, he attained such a degree of expertise in medicine that his renown spread far and wide. At the age of 17, he was fortunate in curing Nooh Ibn Mansoor, the King of Bukhhara, of an illness in which all the well-known physicians had given up hope. On his recovery, the King wished to reward him, but the young physician only desired permission to use his uniquely stocked library.