Bindu Shajan Perappadan

2 days ago | thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is in the process of adding to its Mobile BSL-3 (MBSL-3) laboratory capacity to enhance India’s outbreak response capabilities, and strengthen public health delivery, especially in remote and inaccessible areas. The country currently has two of these innovative and fully indigenous mobile laboratory facilities operational in Pune and Gorakhpur.

3 days ago | thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Ganesh V. Dante could not understand why his seven-year-old son was frequently falling ill. A traditional doctor in his village in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, had been treating the child since birth, “but his condition never really improved.”“It was only through screening under the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission (NSCAEM), launched in 2023 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that my son was found to have sickle cell and has been getting treatment for it.

6 days ago | thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan

The story so far: At least 270 people, most of them passengers, were killed on June 12 when Air India flight 171, a London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed less than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad airport. Following the accident, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis is being used to identify the remains of those killed. In the past week, DNA samples from victims’ family members have been collected and matched, and most remains have already been identified. How do DNA samples help?

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan

In what would be a life, time and cost saving move for people with rare blood groups in India the Central Health Ministry is looking at integrating the country’s Rare Donor Registry with the national online platform for blood bank management and blood availability information called e-Rakt Kosh.

1 week ago | thehindu.com | Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Working to address limitations faced during the COVID-19 pandemic due to conventional computing infrastructure, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has now introduced its first high-performance computing facility at its National Institute of Virology (NIV) facility in Pune. The acquisition of the state-of-the-art computing cluster, named NAKSHATRA, comes soon after India reported a surge in COVID-19 cases, though the number of active cases have dipped marginally over the last two days.