Thiruvananthapuram, May 16 -- Country's pioneering scientific project GenomeIndia will yield the long-term benefit of reducing disease burden, thereby creating a healthier population in the country, said a renowned scientist on Friday.
"It would help in drafting policies for precision and preventive medicine that would reduce diseases," stated Dr K Thangaraj, Joint National Coordinator, GenomeIndia Project.
Dr Thangaraj, who is also CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, was speaking at the national symposium on 'Biotechnology for Sustainable Development-2025', organized by Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council-Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) on its campus here.
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