Chennai, Nov. 17 -- The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) is partnering with Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC), a Navratna Public Sector Enterprise, today launched the Nation's first 'Single Cell Omics Translational (SCOT) Research Laboratory'.

This laboratory, inaugurated on the IIT-M campus today, marked a pioneering step toward advancing India's precision healthcare ecosystem.

This initiative aims to bridge engineering and medicine for public health advancement.

IRFC has sanctioned a Rs 10.83 crore CSR grant funding to IIT Madras to advance precision healthcare, drug discovery and medicalskill development through cutting-edge single-cell research through this lab.

Equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, t...