In India, the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad is the only centre to pool samples of COVID-19 in the country.
Pooling of samples is the process of collecting the virus samples.
The CCMB in Hyderabad has collaborated with Eyestem Research Private Limited, a Bengaluru based company.
It is for an attempt to grow novel coronavirus in human cells that will enable vitro testing of potential vaccines or drugs for the virus.
The team will use Eyestem’s human lung epithelial cell culture system
It will help in understanding the pathological and molecular characteristics of COVID-19.
The test which will be performed in vitro (in glass) means that it will be done outside the living organism which will involve isolated tissues, cells, or organs.