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NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday issued an advisory on the CRISPR SARS CoV-2 test that has been approved by the Drugs Controller General of India for Covid-19 detection.
CRISPR (clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic) SARS CoV-2 test is a new diagnostic method based on CRISPR-Cas9 technology to identify and target the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The test has been developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and has been validated by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) - National Center for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru.