{"id":130825,"date":"2022-01-27T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130825"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T13:20:14","slug":"csir-cdri-scientists-develop-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/csir-cdri-scientists-develop-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"CSIR-CDRI scientists develop OM, the RT-PCR kit for Omicron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit. What is the name of this kit?<br><\/strong>(a) Uma<br>(b) Om<br>(c) Ohm<br>(d) Imo<br><strong>Answer: (b)<br>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit, \u2018Om\u2019, for the testing of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.<\/li><li>The kit, a first by any government institution for the omicron variant, will also make India self-reliant in RT-PCR diagnostics.<\/li><li>Om enables quick and cost-effective detection of omicron variants over genome sequencing for a large population.<\/li><li>It was made within two months and will cost around Rs 150.<\/li><li>It will give the test results in around two hours.<\/li><li>According to the scientists, it can also be aligned for the detection of other emerging variants of Covid infection and other respiratory infections.<\/li><li>Once the kit gets approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), it will be launched by mid-February.<\/li><li>The kit has been referred to the ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV) and is yet to be validated.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY: AMIT GUPTA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2022\/01\/24\/csir-cdri-scientists-develop-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2022\/01\/24\/csir-cdri-scientists-develop-om-the-rt-pcr-kit-for-omicron\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit. What is the name of this kit?(a) Uma(b) Om(c) Ohm(d) ImoAnswer: (b)Related Facts: CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit, \u2018Om\u2019, for the testing of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The kit, a first by any government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":130826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-130825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130827,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130825\/revisions\/130827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}