By 2027, Patrick Tan’s project in Singapore will create Asia’s first functional precision medicine system with the potential to fine-tune treatments and drug responses for Asians.
China has put Illumina on its ‘unreliable entity list’ after the US imposed sanctions on Beijing Genomics Institute, also a global giant making genome sequencing equipment.
Genome India project was launched in 2020, completed in February last year. A total of 10,000 genome samples across diverse sections of Indian society were collected.
India faces challenges because of low investment in public health programs, high endemicity in difficult-to-reach locations, and persisting diagnostic gaps.
Indian genome closer to Iranian farmers & steppe herders than Africans. Most significant contact between ancestral Indians & Africans was 50,000 years ago, finds preprint UC Berkeley study.
Completion of Genome India Project was announced at 38th Foundation day celebrations of Dept of Biotechnology. Initiative to conduct sequencing of 10,000 genomes was launched in 2020.
A study by an international team of researchers, published in Current Biology, may have found the real cause of the composer's death by testing 8 hair samples believed to be his.
Indeever Madireddy, a senior student from a leading private school in Silicon Valley, successfully sequenced the genome of freshwater angelfish after his pet fish died.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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