Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the Next Generation Sequencing (NSG) facility at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad today.  

• The facility includes technology for high genome sequencing and also diagnostic sequencing of clinical samples.  
• The state of art machine, acquired at a cost of Rs. 8 crore can sequence 18,000 samples in 8 minutes.  

• The NSG would help prenatal genetic screening and counselling, thereby generating large scale genomic data critical for diagnosis and therapy.  

Source: ForumIAS factly