Question: The Center of Celebrity and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad has recently started working in collaboration with which organisation on whole genome sequencing of the Nobel Coronavirus?
(a)IIT, Kanpur
(b)AIIMS, New Delhi
(c)IGIB, New Delhi
(d)IISc, Bengaluru
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
- Two institutes of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR); Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad and Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi have started working together on the whole genome sequencing of novel coronavirus on April 8, 2020.
- This study will help understanding the evolution of the virus, its dynamic nature and imitation.
- Whole-genome sequencing is the method used to determine the complete DNA sequence of a specific organism’s genome.
- The approach for sequencing the late st coronavirus involves getting samples from patients that have are found to be positive and sending these samples to a sequencing centre.
Author: Himanshu Shukla
Links:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1612155