IIT Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) is soon going to start a first of its kind genomics laboratory facility for its students from all engineering branches.
The primary objective of the laboratory will be to teach the basic techniques of life sciences to the second year students. It will include microscopy-based observation, protein structure and function, molecular biology, and bioinformatics.
Under the mentorship of faculties from Biotechnology, Bioscience, Chemistry, Medical Science and Technology and Computer Science and…