India, Nov. 18 -- Indian Institute of Technology,Madras and Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC) have set up country's first Single Cell Omics Translational (SCOT) research laboratory, officials said on Monday. 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-communicable diseases, they said.

IRFC is providing a CSR grant of '10.83 crore to establish this lab, which will be located in the Department of Medical Sciences and Technology (DMST) at IIT Madras. The facility is designed to accelerate research in single-cell...