11 Most Technologically Advanced Countries in Asia-Pacific

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9. Iran

Despite being in 9th place at the moment, Iran will sky-rocket in this list in the near future, according to a number of research sources. Followed by China, this country is ranked first in terms of output growth rate, and it could rank fourth in the world in terms of research output by 2018, if things go on according to plan. Regarding the biomedical science, Iran’s Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics is a UNESCO chair in biology. In 2006 Iranian scientists successfully cloned a sheep by somatic cell nuclear transfer. The stem cell research in Iran is one of the top 10 in the world, according to some studies.
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