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To receive,
identify, maintain, store, cultivate and supply animal and
human cell lines, hybridomas and intracellular obligate
parasites,
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To establish new
cell lines,
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To conduct
postgraduate training programs, seminars, and
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To serve as a
National Reference Centre for tissue culture and tissue
banking.
The
repository at National Centre for Cell Science is the only
repository that houses human and animal cells in India. The
NCCS repository serves to receive, identify, maintain, store,
cultivate and supply animal and human cell lines and
hybridomas.
The repository has procured cultures from various
sources within the country and abroad from 35 animal species.
A major bulk of the cell lines stocked in the repository have
been procured from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
and the European Collection of Animal Cell Cultures (ECACC).
At present, the total number of culture strains is 1127, of
which about 300 are available for distribution to users on
registration. Approximately 510 researchers from 275
institutes have registered with NCCS for the same. During the
year 2000 – 2001, the cell repository of NCCS has supplied 515
cell cultures comprising of 148 different cell types to 102
research organizations in the coumtry. The repository has
initiated programmes to develop, immortalise and characterize
cell lines from different tissue/tumor types.
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