SARS-CoV-2

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of infections and deaths worldwide. Limited treatment options and the threat from emerging variants make it even more challenging. Researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health and…
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A team of Indian scientists has developed a new technology platform that promises to help detect viruses and other pathogens. Its potential has been demonstrated for the detection of the Coronavirus. Viruses are a major global threat to…
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The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will soon write to the Election Commission of India suggesting that a disinfection technology developed by the Council’s Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO) for…
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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), affects a few children who have been infected with COVID19. Several body organs, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs, become inflamed,…
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Minister of State for Education Shri Sanjay Dhotre launched a Rapid Antigen Test kit for COVID-19 developed by IIT Delhi. The Rapid Antigen Test kit has been developed by the IIT Delhi researchers led by Dr. Harpal Singh, professor at the…
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India and Sri Lanka have joined hands to scale up the genome surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in the two countries with a network of satellite MicroLabs. The collaboration between the two countries aims to expand Genome Surveillance Program for…
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A Pandora’s box may have been opened up by scientists researching the coronavirus, the agent behind the world’s biggest pandemic and epidemic Covid-19. In a recently published study in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a well-acclaimed…
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At present there are thousands of Covid-19 variants circulating all over the world. Mutation in viruses happens all the time. These mutations or changes mostly harm the virus itself and remain inconsequential. But a select few mutations…
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Novel Coronavirus has devastated the whole world. Numerous research groups are racing against time to decode the COVID-19 virus, in order to find cures for the catastrophic pandemic. A research team from Indian Institute of Technology…
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The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), through its New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative (NMITLI) program, has approved a project towards development of human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) that can…
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