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NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: An indigenously developed test using state-of-the-art CRISPR gene editing technology to accurately, inexpensively and rapidly detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 infection has been approved for its commercial launch by Drugs Comptroller General of India. Developed by scientists from IGIB (Institute for Genomics and Integrative …

NEW DELHI: India’s Comptroller General of Drugs approved the commercial launch of ‘Feluda’, the Tata CRISPR (regularly interspaced regularly clustered short palindromic repeats) Covid-19 test, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said on Saturday. This test uses state-of-the-art CRISPR technology developed in the country for the detection of …