Tag: RNA

The kit consists of a nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swab which, post sampling, is placed in a stabilizing solution containing RNAShield™, a proprietary US FDA approved reagent from US based Zymo Research................

Trivitron Healthcare as a leading domestic health technology company has announced the launch of a full suite of indigenously developed COVID-19 Testing products, as the organization’s contribution towards Atmanirbhar (self-reliant) Bharat....................

Diagnostic testing on high-throughput cobas 8800 in Kolkata and cobas 6800 in Mumbai to significantly increase testing capacity.............

Pune-based Mylab Discovery Solutions has scaled up its production and development of COVID-19 path detect testing kit with the help of strategic funding under National Biopharma Mission of Department of Biotechnology and Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council.......................

Hyderabad-based Biophore India Pharmaceuticals has received the DCGI license to manufacture the API in India and has been cleared for export as well.................

Diagnostic material for 4.7 lakh RT-PCR tests and 50,000 rapid antigen test kits supplied free of cost to Delhi government by ICMR “Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre” at Chhattarpur, a 2000-bedded facility, to be operated by medical and other personnel of Central Armed Police Forces................

The kits will be based on RT-LAMP (Reverse Transcriptase Loop-Mediated Amplification) technology for COVID-19 detection which can produce results in significantly less time thereby increasing the throughput of labs in India.....................

A research study to engineer virucidal coatings to prevent the COVID-19 transmission is being conducted in collaboration with Dr Milan Surjit from Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) and Dr Samrat Mukhopadhay from Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.................

CSIR-CDRI will carry out sequence analysis studies on the samples received from KGMU to identify mutations that might impact therapeutic strategies that are being implemented.........................

Pune-based Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) have developed drug targets for the virus that causes the disease, using the molecular modeling approach..................