Azooka Labs, a startup at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has launched mWRAPR.<\/span><\/p>\n It is India\u2019s first indigenous bio-sample collection kit.<\/span><\/p>\n It can be used as a biosample collection kit and storage medium for samples <\/span>destined for genomic sequencing labs, biobanks and research \u200b\u200blabs handling biological samples for molecular analysis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The kit helps to preserve genetic content in all types of biological samples including microbiomes, saliva, cells, tissues, blood, body fluids and fecal tubes.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance of this development:<\/b> It is the only Molecular Transport Medium to be manufactured in India that competes with other notable foreign <\/span>bio-sample collection kits.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>IISc startup launches India\u2019s first indigenous bio-sample collection kit<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in TOI <\/b>on 8th Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? Azooka Labs, a startup at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has launched mWRAPR. What is mWRAPR? It is India\u2019s first indigenous bio-sample collection kit. It can be used as a biosample collection kit and storage medium for samples destined for genomic sequencing labs, biobanks and research \u200b\u200blabs handling biological samples… Continue reading IISc startup launches India\u2019s first indigenous bio-sample collection kit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-167183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704495143},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is mWRAPR?<\/b><\/h5>\n