GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Biotechnology related issues. Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG): Context: INSACOG led team has traced a total of 108 mutations of the SARS-Cov-2, which include four novel mutations in India, in the wastewater samples collected from Pune city between December 2020 and April 2021. How important is it for countries …
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GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Issues related to biotechnology. Context: Novel Coronavirus Sequencing and analysis has declined sharply in India. The number of coronavirus samples sequenced and analysed in India has dropped. India formed the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics (INSACOG), a consortium of genome sequencing labs, in December 2020. While announcing INSACOG, the …
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Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) What to study? For Prelims: About GISAID and genome sequencing. For Mains: Why is it important to understand the genomic sequence of COVID-19? Context: So far, India has shared nine whole genome sequences of the novel …
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