India, Feb. 5 -- The Government of India has issued a release:

As part of the BioE3 Policy (Biotechnology for Economy, Environment and Employment) for 'Fostering High-performance Biomanufacturing', synthetic biology programme is being developed for biomanufacturing of bio-based products.

Within DSIR, the constituent laboratories of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are supporting research, industrial applications and indigenous innovation in synthetic biology. Research works in synthetic biology being under taken in CSIR-NCL, Pune aims to design strains for multiple chemical classes of compounds from Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), and pigments like violacein and vanillin. CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru is carrying out the projects fo...