When entire world, including India, is battling global epidemic of corona virus, a good news has come in the wake of this crisis that the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Center (GBRC) in Gandhinagar Gujarat has been successful in decoding the entire genome sequence of coronovirus.
Gujarat’s Principal Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Jayanthi Ravi said that the GBRC is the first center in the country to decode the entire genome of coronovirus, which will help in studying the possibility of treatment and vaccine against corona virus.
Gujrat Chief Minister office also announced on Twitter that “Gujarat is proud of scientists at Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC), the only State Govt laboratory in India that has reported COVID19 whole genome sequence which will be helpful in tracking origin, drug targets, vaccine & association with virulence”.
Director of Gujarat Biotechnology Research Center (GBRC) Dr C.G. Joshi said that the research have found three new mutations in the virus apart from the six mutations that have been there in the virus in China and other countries.
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