CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The FELUDA test kit is developed by a team of scientists at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). FELUDA is also the world’s first diagnostic test to use a specially developed Cas9 protein to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Targeted genome editing, often called CRISPR/Cas9, is increasingly recognized as an effective tool in medicine (Bawage et al., 2018; Freije et al., 2019). It can inactivate the SARS-CoV2 virus in mammalian cells by truncating the specific sequence of the virus.