India, April 25 -- UK-based Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the global company behind a new generation of nanopore-based molecular sensing technology, has signed Letters of Intent with the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council-Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (BRIC-CDFD), and the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG), which commit to the establishment of two new Indian Centres of Excellence (CoE) in genomics.

Signed in the presence of the Secretary for DBT, Dr Rajesh Gokhale, the landmark CoEs will help to position India as a regional leader in advanced genomics, and are expected to span rare disease, cancer, and infectious disease surveillance, to support ...