India, Dec. 22 -- ALetter of Intent (LoI) has been signed for the establishment of CRISPR Centre of Excellence for Innovation and Translation (CoE-CIT).It will be a dedicated centre to convert the scientific inventions made in the laboratory into real-world clinical applications using state-of-the-art CRISP technologies. CRISPR(Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)is a gene-editing technique that allows scientists to precisely cut,alter, or remove DNA.

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), a Bengaluru-based autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Delhi-based CRISPRobits Private Limited (CRISP), a focus on biotechnology using CRISPR gene-editing technolog...