A team of young scientists of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has finally achieved completion of the ambitious first ever Human Genome Sequencing in India. With the completion of the project India has joined the prestigious league of few countries like US, Canada, China, UK and Korea.
According to S K Brahmchari, Director General of CSIR the decoding of human genome generated over 51 Gigabase of data. He said that the Human Genome has 3.1 billion base pairs. Addressing a press conference Union Minister Prithvi Raj Chavan said that it will open new routes for low cost affordable medicine and better healthcare in the future for the common people. Vice President M.Hamid Ansari too congratulated the CSIR for the achievement.