Domestic Device Helps Detect Metabolic Diseases in Babies

A domestic knowledge-based company has produced a device that detects metabolic diseases in newborns through a blood test at the time of birth.
Mobtakeran Agah Hadaf Company’s development of the device using new technologies helps stop certain diseases in the early stages, the news portal of Vice Presidency for Science and Technology reported.
Metabolic disorders are hereditary biochemical diseases in which the metabolic pathways of various substances in the body are disrupted, mainly due to the dysfunction of an enzyme or its cofactor, a receptor, substance transporter, membrane, or structural component.
Inherited metabolic disorders fall into different categories, depending on the specific substance involved and whether it builds up in harmful amounts (because it’s toxic and can't be broken down), it's too low or it's missing.