{"id":22116,"date":"2024-04-03T05:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22116"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:03:17","slug":"optidrop-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/optidrop-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"OptiDrop Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>About OptiDrop Platform<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an innovative <strong>microfluidic chip-based<\/strong> platform that simplifies and reduces the cost of studying single cells.<\/li>\n<li>It employs a novel approach that enables precise and cost-effective analysis of single cells encapsulated in droplets.<\/li>\n<li>The platform\u2019s unique features include <strong>live data visualisation<\/strong>, a smaller data footprint, and a \u2018closed\u2019 system design that <strong>prevents external contamination<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>This research was supported by the <strong>Biotechnology Industry Research Council<\/strong> (BIRAC), the Department of Science and Technology (DST), and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This cutting-edge technology has potential applications in <strong>diagnostics, therapeutics, agriculture, and animal health.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It helps in studying the impact on individual cells during a drug screen, environment control (water contamination counter), detection and sorting of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/car-t-cell-therapy\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAR-T cells<\/a> in immuno-oncotherapeutics, <strong>selection of CRISPR-modifiedsingle cells<\/strong> and selection of high-efficiency clones in single-cell genomics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is C-CAMP?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an initiative supported by the Department<strong> of Biotechnology<\/strong>, Govt of India is a catalyst of cutting-edge <strong>research and innovation<\/strong> in the <strong>life sciences<\/strong> since 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is mandated to <strong>promote entrepreneurship and innovation<\/strong>. It has created and fostered an entrepreneur-friendly culture in and around the Academic\/Research environment through its involvement in Seed Funding Schemes for Startups.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Microfluidic chip?<\/h3>\n<p>It is referred to as lab-on-a-chip devices, which are miniature platforms that manipulate and analyze small volumes of fluids. These chips integrate various functions, such as mixing, pumping, and sensing, onto a compact substrate, enabling precise control over minute amounts of liquids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/bengaluru-c-camp-platform-single-cell-9246819\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bengaluru\u2019s C-CAMP develops platform for studying single cells cost-effectively<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OptiDrop Platform  is an innovative microfluidic chip-based platform that simplifies and reduces the cost of studying single cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22116","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\/22116","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=22116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}