India, Nov. 17 -- Indian Institute of Technology Madras(IIT-M) is partnering withIndian Railways Finance Corporation(IRFC), a Navratna Public Sector Enterprise, to establish the Nation's first 'Single Cell Omics Translational (SCOT) Research Laboratory'.

This Research Laboratory, inaugurated on the campus, marks a pioneering step toward advancing India's precision healthcare ecosystem.This initiative aims to bridge engineering and medicine for public health advancement.

Equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, the SCOT Lab will facilitate early diagnosis, disease prognosis, biomarker discovery and drug screening across a spectrum of diseases - including cancer, cardiovascular, infectious, inflammatory, metabolic, and other non-co...