News: The Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) test, powered by CSIR-IGIB (Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology) FELUDA, received regulatory approvals from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for commercial launch. Facts: FELUDA is the acronym for FNCAS9 Editor Linked Uniform Detection Assay. It is a low cost paper strip test… Continue reading India’s first CRISPR Covid-19 test, developed by the Tata Group and CSIR-IGIB, approved for use in India
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Feluda- Coronavirus Test
News:Scientists at the CSIR’s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) have developed a coronavirus test named Feluda. Facts: Feluda is a low cost paper strip test which can detect the presence of coronavirus within an hour. It uses the gene editing tool CRISPR-CAS9 to target and identify the genome sequences of the novel coronavirus… Continue reading Feluda- Coronavirus Test
