{"id":12318,"date":"2023-06-21T03:45:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:10:33","slug":"gemcovac-om-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gemcovac-om-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"GEMCOVAC \u2013OM Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About GEMCOVAC \u2013OM Vaccine:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was developed using the indigenous platform technology by Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. and supported under <strong>the Mission COVID Suraksha,<\/strong> implemented by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC).<\/li>\n<li>It is a thermo-stable vaccine, which <strong>does not require ultra-cold chain infrastructure<\/strong> used for other approved mRNA-based vaccines, making it easy for deployment pan India.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>delivered intra-dermally using a needle-free injection<\/strong> device system.<\/li>\n<li>When administered intradermally in participants as a booster, it generated significantly <strong>higher immune responses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The clinical outcome demonstrates the need for variant-specific vaccines for desired immune response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about BIRAC<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>not-for-profit Section 8, Schedule B, Public Sector Enterprise<\/strong>, set up by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India,<\/li>\n<li>It is an Interface Agency to strengthen and empower emerging Biotech enterprises to undertake strategic research and innovation, addressing nationally relevant product development needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is mRNA vaccine?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It contains messenger <strong>RNA (mRNA),<\/strong> a single-stranded RNA molecule that complements DNA.<\/li>\n<li>It is created in the nucleus when DNA is transcribed by RNA polymerase to create pre-mRNA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is cell nucleus?<\/h3>\n<p>In biology, the nucleus is a membrane-bound organelle found in eukaryotic cells. It is often referred to as the &#8220;control center&#8221; of the cell because it houses the genetic material and regulates cellular activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1933586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Omicron-specific mRNA-based Booster vaccine developed using the indigenous platform technology<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEMCOVAC \u2013OM Vaccine was developed using the indigenous platform technology by Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. and supported under the Mission COVID Suraksha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}