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CSIR-IGIB is a premier research laboratory of the CSIR that carries out advanced research in biochemical technology and genomic including various aspects of molecular medicine. Also, the staff at IMHANS could now be trained at the CSIR-IGIB facility in New Delhi and collaborative research projects could be taken up. more-inDiagnosis of genetic disorders among children, such as primary immune deficiency disorders (PID), and detailed research into them will soon be made possible at the Kozhikode-based Institute of Mental Health and Neuroscience (IMHANS). The institute is one of the few in the government sector in the State to offer this facility. P.
Krishnakumar, director, IMHANS, said the blood samples to detect genetic disorders such as PID were used to be sent to Mumbai and New Delhi earlier as the State had very limited facilities for the purpose..