{"id":94565,"date":"2020-04-15T10:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T10:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=94565"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T10:01:21","slug":"dst-funded-startup-develops-kits-for-testing-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/dst-funded-startup-develops-kits-for-testing-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"DST funded startup develops kits for testing asymptomatic COVID-19 infections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which startup has developed kits for testing asymptomatic COVID-19 infections &amp; gears up for vaccine production?<\/strong><br>(a) Seagull BioSolutions<br>(b) Genrich Membranes<br>(c) Zydus<br>(d) Ranbaxy<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>DST funded startup has developed kits for testing asymptomatic COVID-19 infections &amp; gears up for vaccine production.<\/li><li>It was developed by Seagull BioSolutions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Purpose to develop:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Developing vaccines has the longest timeline and so it is essential to fast track that activity earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Uses:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Active Virosome Technology (AVT) developed by Seagull Bio is useful for the production of vaccines &amp; immunotherapeutic agents.<\/li><li>The AVT platform is useful for producing novel, non-hazardous &amp; economical Active Virosome agents expressing desired antigens from the target pathogen.<\/li><li>These will be used to develop a novel vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 infection and also immunodiagnostic ELISA kits for COVID-19.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Seagull BioSolutions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Seagull BioSolutionsis a startup working on new biological technologies, is being funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Achyutanand Pandey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1613213\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1613213<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which startup has developed kits for testing asymptomatic COVID-19 infections &amp; gears up for vaccine production?(a) Seagull BioSolutions(b) Genrich Membranes(c) Zydus(d) RanbaxyAnswer: (a)Related facts: DST funded startup has developed kits for testing asymptomatic COVID-19 infections &amp; gears up for vaccine production. It was developed by Seagull BioSolutions. Purpose to develop: \u2022 Developing vaccines has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":94566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[2344],"class_list":["post-94565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nnews","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94565","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=94565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94565\/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\/94566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94565"}],"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=94565"},{"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=94565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}