Q. South India’s first biobank has been launched in which city?
Answer:
Hyderabad
Notes: A biobank houses tissue samples of a lakh healthy people to enable researchers study the onset and progression of diseases.
The 20-crore state-of-the-art biobank, the first in south India and only the third such facility in the country was launched in Hyderabad. It would serve as a repository for future collaborative research to map onset and progress, prevention and reversal of diseases.