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Excitement was evident at the University of Mumbai's Centre for Basic Sciences as a faculty member and two researchers cloned a novel gene, a first of its sorts at the Kalina campus . They presented their work at Wednesday's governing council meeting of the centre presided over by chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Anil Kakodkar.
The three-Jacinta D' - Souza, a biology faculty member and two PhD students Dolly Khona and Venkatramanan Rao-cloned a gene namely, flagellar-associated gene from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for the first time. "While elite institutions around the globe and in India clone genes frequently this is the first time that any gene has been cloned in the university environment,'' D'souza said. Vice-chancellor Vijay Khole said the cloned gene has managed to find a place in the gene bank.
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