Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India

A Statement of Intent was signed between DBT and Prakash Lab, Stanford University, USA for 'Development and Deployment of Products (Foldscope) from Prakash Lab'. The Foldscope, an extraordinary invention that creates a US$ 1 paper microscope will be made available to the most resource-constrained schools and colleges in India in an attempt to democratize curiosity driven science.

"Swachh Bharat has the backing of Biotechnology" "Swachh Bharat" has been taken up as a serious research area in the country's laboratories keeping in mind the reality that biotechnology offers immense scope to leapfrog several levels towards the objective of public hygiene and health.

An indigenous process technology and pilot scale manufacturing unit for iron fortified rice has been developed through DBT support at IIT, Kharagpur. Pilot scale manufacturing unit with100 Kg/8 h capacity has been commissioned. The rice is fortified through a process called extrusion in which dough made of rice flour, vitamin and mineral mix, and water, is passed through an extruder and cut into grain-like structures that resemble rice grains. This iron fortified rice premix matches with the normal rice kernel in shape and size, and when mixed with normal rice in the ratio of 1:100 it provi

The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) is in collaboration with drug major Sun Pharma to use the recombinant EDIII-based sub-unit dengue vaccine candidate to develop an injectible vaccine that protects against all four dengue strains are endemic to India. ICGEB has also developed the first 1 day Dengue Diagnostic Test and more than 5 million tests were sold in 2016.