Summary:
For the first time in India, scientists will be able to map every cell and tissue, as well as shed better light on inter-organ connections within the human body under the MANAV-Atlas programme, launched by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in New Delhi on Friday. Such a database can come in handy for the human reference genome,” said a senior scientist associated with the MANAV programme. Advertising“The aim of the project remains to understand and capture the human physiology in two stages — in a normal stage and in a disease stage. The project will provide ample opportunities for students from the fields of biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology, zoology, health sciences, bioinformatics, systems biology and botany. ‘MANAV: Human Atlas Initiative’, launched by Dr Renu Swarup, secretary at DBT, will be a vast collection of all known macro-level and micro-level information collected from both the public database and scientific or health databases..