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India’s first genetic bank for wildlife conservation inaugurated in Hyderabad
In Hyderabad, India’s first genetic bank for wildlife conservation has been inaugurated by Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan at the Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES) in CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) to protect India’s biodiversity and environment. It is dubbed as National Wildlife Genetic Resource Bank (NWGRB), ..
Topics: Biodiversity • Biology • Branches of biology • Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology • Conservation biology • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research • Ecology • Embryo • Environmental conservation • Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species • Nature • Population genetics
Dr. Lalji Singh
Widely regarded as the “Father of DNA fingerprinting in India”, Dr. Lalji Singh passed away in December, 2017. He died of a massive heart attack at the BHU Trauma Centre on 10th December. The 25th Vice Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University, the fourth Director of the Hyderabad-based CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), ..
Topics: Academic disciplines • Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology • Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research • DNA • DNA profiling • Forensic science • Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species • Lalji • Lalji Singh • Science and technology in India • States and union territories of India
Lalji Singh, father of Indian DNA fingerprinting passes away
Lalji Singh (70), the eminent scientist and the father of DNA fingerprinting in India, has passed away in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on December 10, 2017. He was the founder of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) & also served as its director. Singh also found various institutes and laboratories that included laboratory for ..
Topics: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology • Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research • India • Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species • Lalji Singh • Science and technology in India • Sunil Kumar Verma • Uttar Pradesh • Varanasi