{"id":1104,"date":"2020-08-14T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2020-08-14T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:00:09","slug":"soa-researchers-help-identify-73-novel-variants-of-covid-19-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"SOA RESEARCHERS HELP IDENTIFY 73 NOVEL VARIANTS OF COVID-19 STRAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of genomic researchers from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi and Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here has identified 73 novel variants of the Covid-19 strain for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The\nresearchers, who carried out sequencing of 1536 samples including 752 clinical\nsamples, reported two lineages B.1.112 and B.1.99 for the first time in India,\nDr. Jayashankar Das, Lead Investigator and Director (Research) of IMS and SUM\nHospital, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IMS and SUM\nHospital is the faculty of medical sciences of the SOA Deemed to be University\nhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"443\" src=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-19-coronavirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1106\" data-link=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?attachment_id=1106\" class=\"wp-image-1106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-19-coronavirus.jpg 760w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/covid-19-coronavirus-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. Das said\nthe research team, supported by the Council of Scientific and Industrial\nResearch (CSIR), validated the most advanced COVIDSeq technology for the first\ntime in the world which could be a potential high sensitivity assay for\ndetection of SARS-CoV-2 with the additional advantage of enabling genetic\nepidemiology of SARS-CoV-2. With this study, India beat 12 organisations in ten\ncountries to complete the first field validation and released the data online,\nas per a report by Sequencing Giant tech Illumina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The IMS and\nSUM Hospital researchers are also undertaking sequencing and analysis of 500 viral\ngenomes to understand the mild, moderate and critical coronavirus infection\nalong with its transmission capabilities, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Besides, the\nstudy would help understand the vulnerability of the strains, new therapeutic\ntarget, new mutation in eastern India specifically to Odisha. \u201cThis is the\nfirst ever attempt in the world to have such a large scale detection,\nsurveillance and genetic epidemiology of Covid-19 in a single run,\u201d Dr. Das\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The rapid\nemergence of coronavirus disease as a global pandemic, which has affected\nmillions of people across the world, has necessitated sensitive and\nhigh-throughput approaches for diagnosis, surveillance and determining the\ngenetic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 which would help in strain tracking information\nas well, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of genomic researchers from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi and Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here has identified 73 novel variants of the Covid-19 strain for the first time. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The researchers, who carried out sequencing of 1536 samples including 752 clinical samples, reported two lineages B.1.112 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}