{"id":90622,"date":"2020-01-26T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=90622"},"modified":"2020-01-26T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T12:55:55","slug":"icmr-setup-task-force-on-gene-therapy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/icmr-setup-task-force-on-gene-therapy-research\/","title":{"rendered":"ICMR Setup task force on gene therapy research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: The main reason behind the (ICMR) setting up a task force on gene therapy research, is-<br> (a) It can provide cheap treatment<br> (b) Drugs or traditional therapies are not available<br> (c) Many inherited disorders can well be treated by gene therapy<br> (d) None of the above<br> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is setting up a task force on gene therapy research to encourage research in the emerging field.<\/li><li>The research body among other things has proposed forming the task force to explore gene editing based therapeutic approaches to treat illnesses.<\/li><li>In a call for research proposals, ICMR has stressed that many inherited disorders are not treated by current available drugs or traditional therapies.<\/li><li>The vast majority of inherited diseases, appropriate targeted therapies are yet unavailable despite the large load of genetic disease in our population.<\/li><li>To address this particular gap, ICMR is inviting proposals to fund gene therapy research projects,\u201d the research body has said in its circular.<\/li><li>In recently released guidelines on gene therapy ICMR stated, \u201cIndia has large burden of genetic disorders and unmet medical needs of the people.<\/li><li>Therefore the ICMR is of the view that gene therapy can prove to be a turning point in treatment of such disorders.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Gene Therapy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gene Therapy refers to the process of introduction, removal or change in content of an individual\u2019s genetic material with the goal of treating the disease and a possibility of achieving long term cure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/science\/icmr-sets-up-a-task-force-on-gene-therapy-research\/article30305746.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/science\/icmr-sets-up-a-task-force-on-gene-therapy-research\/article30305746.ece<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The main reason behind the (ICMR) setting up a task force on gene therapy research, is- (a) It can provide cheap treatment (b) Drugs or traditional therapies are not available (c) Many inherited disorders can well be treated by gene therapy (d) None of the above Answer: (c) Related facts: Indian Council of Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":90626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-90622","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\/90622","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=90622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90622"}],"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=90622"},{"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=90622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}