Biosimilar medicine
Posted on29 Apr 2020
Context: World Health Organization (WHO) had for the first time approved a “biosimilar” medicine to make breast cancer treatment affordable to women... Read More
IndiGen Project
Posted on27 Apr 2020
TagsBIOTECHNOLOGY
Context: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has launched an ambitious project, IndiGen, to sequence whole genomes of diverse ethnic... Read More
Biofuel from Microorganisms
Posted on27 Apr 2020
TagsBIOTECHNOLOGY
Context: Researchers at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) developing a method to improve the growth rate and sugar... Read More
National Guidelines for Gene Therapy
Posted on27 Apr 2020
TagsBIOTECHNOLOGY
Context: ‘National Guidelines for Gene Therapy Product Development and Clinical Trials’ document has been released by ICMR Gene therapy is a technique... Read More
Living Robots: Xenobots
Posted on26 Apr 2020
Context: Scientists Combine AI With Biology to Create Xenobots, the World’s First ‘Living Robots’ The term “xeno” comes from the frog cells... Read More
AWaRe
Posted on18 Apr 2020
Why in news? WHO is releasing a tool called AWaRe for safer use and resistance to curbing antibiotics. What’s the new instrument?... Read More
Controlled human infection model
Posted on18 Apr 2020
TagsBIOTECHNOLOGY
Why in news? The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) proposed to use the Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) to develop new influenza vaccines.... Read More
National Genomic Grid(NGG)
Posted on17 Apr 2020
Why in news? The government recently announced that the national genome grid would be setup. What is this? It will study genomic... Read More
AMBIS (automated multi modal biometric identification system)
Posted on17 Apr 2020
TagsBIOTECHNOLOGY
Why in news? Maharashtra became the first state in the police investigation to implement the AMBIS. What is AMBIS? An AMBIS device... Read More
Typhoid conjugate vaccine
Posted on17 Apr 2020
Why in news? Bharat Biotech has developed a typhoid (Typbar TCV) vaccine that is better able to prevent typhoid fever than commonly... Read More