{"id":85547,"date":"2020-05-10T19:07:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15314"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:37:18","slug":"bharat-biotech-eyes-human-monoclonal-antibody-therapy-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-biotech-eyes-human-monoclonal-antibody-therapy-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Biotech eyes human monoclonal antibody therapy for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR) has sanctioned a project to develop human monoclonal antibodies as a therapy for Covid-19 in the next six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The project was approved under CSIR\u2019s New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative(NMITLI).<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To create an alternate therapy by generating highly effective and specific human monoclonal antibodies capable of neutralising SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes Covid-19.<\/li><li><strong>Implementation:<\/strong> National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), IIT-Indore and PredOmix Technologies Pvt.Ltd. with Bharat Biotech International Ltd.(BBIL) as the commercialization partner.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>NMITLI:<\/strong> It is the largest Public-Private partnership effort led by CSIR to catalyze innovation centred scientific and technological developments as a vehicle to attain for Indian industry a global leadership position, in selected niche areas.<\/li><li><strong>Monoclonal antibodies:<\/strong>These are man-made proteins that act like natural antibodies and work by identifying and binding to the virus to destroy it.<\/li><li><strong>Antibodies<\/strong>:It is a protective protein produced by the immune system in order to attack antigens.Antigen is a toxin or other foreign substance which induces an immune response in the body.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR) has sanctioned a project to develop human monoclonal antibodies as a therapy for Covid-19 in the next six months. Facts: The project was approved under CSIR\u2019s New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative(NMITLI). Aim: To create an alternate therapy by generating highly effective and specific human monoclonal antibodies capable&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bharat-biotech-eyes-human-monoclonal-antibody-therapy-for-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bharat Biotech eyes human monoclonal antibody therapy for Covid-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2604,2911,2912],"class_list":["post-85547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-csir","tag-monoclonal-antibodies","tag-nmitli","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704667366},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85547","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}