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Affordable gene and cell therapies need of the hour: Dr Kapil Bharti, Scientific Director, National Eye Institute Limitless potential for future global advancements in gene therapies is originating from India, said Dr David Gamm.
22 Aug, 2023, 12.42 PM ISTRohini Nilekani to give Rs 100 crore for new mental health research centre The Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies Foundation has provided a grant of INR 100 crore to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences and the National Centre for Biological Sciences to help establish a centre for brain and mind. The centr...
30 Mar, 2023, 12.41 PM IST18 passengers who arrived from overseas test Covid positive: Tamil Nadu Health Minister The number of people who tested Covid-19 positive on arrival from overseas to Tamil Nadu till date has increased with 18 passengers from "at-risk" and "non-risk" countries having tested positive for the Delta variant of the contagion and their RTPCR...
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13 passengers who arrived from overseas test Covid positive: TN health minister Thirteen passengers who arrived from 'at risk' and 'non-risk' countries to Tamil Nadu till date have tested Covid-19 positive and their RTPCR Samples have been sent to Bengaluru for genomic sequencing analysis, Tamil Nadu Minister Ma Subramanian said
09 Dec, 2021, 05.44 PM ISTNewly formed four city clusters to intensify India’s COVID-19 genome sequencing efforts Research institutes in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Pune form these four clusters. “The consortium will track the emergence of viral variants correlated to epidemiological and clinical outcomes,” the media statement from Bengaluru based Natio...
10 Jun, 2021, 10.12 PM ISTCOVID-19: Consortium of four Indian cities funded for enhanced genome surveillance Established with support and seed funding from Rockefeller Foundation, the new effort will track the emergence of viral variants correlated to epidemiological dynamics and clinical outcomes.
10 Jun, 2021, 09.30 PM ISTNew COVID-19 strain: Total 38 people in India test positive It said comprehensive contact tracing has been initiated for co-travellers, family contacts and others. Genome sequencing on other specimens is going on, the union health ministry said in a statement.
04 Jan, 2021, 05.24 PM ISTVan Heusen partners with govt body to manufacture masks and athleisure wear Through this collaboration, Van Heusen is launching lab-licensed masks and athleisure wear with germicidal technology that claims to disable the Sars-Cov2 virus on contact with the fabric unlike other masks that function as mere protective barriers.
28 Nov, 2020, 02.44 PM ISTNo major mutation observed in SARS-COV 2, no indication vaccine strategy would be hindered: Study Saumitra Das, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, said the institutes started sequencing the virus from different parts of the country from April. “Initially, there were different strains. But by June, we found that A2a st...
18 Oct, 2020, 06.06 PM ISTAzim Premji Foundation, NCBS-TIFR, inStem join hands to ramp up Covid-19 testing The partnership of Azim Premji Foundation, the National Centre for Biological Sciences and the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine will enable free-of-cost testing for Covid-19 to a large number of people from disadvantaged and...
18 May, 2020, 07.07 PM ISTAzim Premji Foundation, NCBS, inStem ink partnership on enhanced testing for COVID-19 The partnership would enable free-of-cost testing for COVID-19 to a large number of people from disadvantaged and marginalised communities, using NCBS-TIFR and inStem's high-capacity technical capabilities and skilled scientific personnel, an Azim P...
18 May, 2020, 03.00 PM ISTWith cryo-electron microscope, India hopes to join the revolution sweeping across the world of medicine The microscope which set the world of biology on fire required expertise to operate. Without Ragunath, the microscope would be just like a doorstop.
12 Feb, 2018, 08.06 PM ISTHow startup TeamIndus is eyeing space colonisation and plans to land on moon The Bangalore-based startup is sending a rover to the moon in March next year, as part of a $30 mn challenge to land and travel on the moon’s surface for 500 metres.
07 Dec, 2017, 09.47 AM ISTHow a seaweed is providing Sea6 Energy and its four founders from IIT-Madras with opportunities Sea6 is now based at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-Camp), the Bengaluru-based incubator built by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
29 Oct, 2017, 01.55 AM ISTTata Trusts to start project to eradicate malaria in India Tata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata, managing trustee R Venkataramanan and head of innovation Manoj Kumar will bet the trustees of the new Institute.
27 Sep, 2017, 11.20 AM ISTGovernment’s biotech innovation centre to be set up in Bengaluru's C-CAMP The centre will be engaged in biotechnology entrepreneurship awareness programmes, creating a national biotechnology entrepreneurship challenge.
02 Mar, 2017, 08.44 AM ISTIndia's biotech capital spreads its wings Considering the state of the industry, and the presence of so many academic institutions in Bengaluru, seasoned entrepreneurs think that the city needs twice or thrice as much incubation space, not to speak of space for companies to expand after inc...
22 Dec, 2016, 12.59 AM IST- First Indian researcher nominated to European investigator programme
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Researcher Minhajuddin Sirajuddin from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bengaluru has become the first scientist from India to join the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Yo...
10 Dec, 2016, 06.37 PM IST Scientists sequence Tulsi genome for medicinal properties The medicinal properties of Tulsi are attributed to specialised compounds produced as a part of its defence mechanism.
13 Sep, 2015, 12.51 PM IST- India, University of Cambridge tie up for research venture at Bangalore
India's Department of Biotechnology and the University of Cambridge are setting up a new initiative for chemical biology and molecular therapeutics at inStem, Bangalore.
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