India plans to establish a technologically advanced underwater biodiversity research lab in the Indian Ocean.
The lab will focus on exploring various types of flora and fauna found on the seabed and at different depths, potentially assessing their suitability for human consumption, as per the Economic Times.
This initiative, part of the government’s long-term vision to make India a developed nation by 2047, is conceptualized under the Deep Ocean Mission.
The underwater lab will create a catalog of sea containing novel biomolecules of industrial and biomedical importance.
Exploring deep-sea organisms, particularly microorganisms, is expected to open up new frontiers in drug discovery and development.
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