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Corona virus - in vitro Testing
May 10 , 2020
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- 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.
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