Coronavirus - IIT Tech Ambit

Detektor: Fighting Fake News

As the struggle against fake-news and misinformation goes on, 'Detektor' joins the fray. This chat-bot can provide instantaneous feedback on the accuracy of dubious claims, by a simple Whatsapp text.

IIT Guwahati

Reaching Out

This article follows the journey of a group of students from IIT Guwahati on to build a solution to address the resource scarcity and supply in the recent 2nd Covid-19 peak, which received recognition and use from the Assam State Government.

IIT Roorkee

Pyomancer: Novel Antimicrobial Drugs against MDR Infections

Team iGem IIT Roorkee’s gold medal solution to tackling WHO’s topmost priority problem of Antimicrobial Resistance and approaching it from a multidisciplinary perspective.

IIT Bombay

Tapestry: An intelligent way to test for COVID 19

Here is a unique pooling method that can be used to screen thousands of COVID 19 patients with up to 100 % accuracy. This innovation from IIT Bombay is currently leading the world in finding economic and efficient ways to perform coronavirus testing.

IIT Kharagpur

SMST, IIT Kharagpur to create a phytochemical-based bodysuit

The School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur is creating a phytochemical-based antiviral bodysuit to restrict the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

IIT Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur innovates to breathe life into the fight against COVID-19

A team of students and Professor Aditya Bandopadhyay from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with DRDO, has been working to make affordable ventilators that could potentially save hundreds of lives.

Research

From Chatbots to Chromosomes: How scientists are battling the Coronavirus

An exploration into recent advances in Statistical Modelling, Natural Language Processing and Genome Sequencing which are being used to Combat the Coronavirus on different fronts of battle - Containment, Control and Cure.

Research

SARS-CoV-2: Where is the vaccine?

As the world is embattled with COVID-19, the scientific fraternity is working day and night to find a more foolproof solution to the outbreak than just exercising social distancing - namely, a vaccine. This article aims to explore the efforts to develop one.

Tech

COVID19: Medical Robots working alongside Hospital Staff

With the rampant spread of the pandemic, personal hygiene, sanitation and large scale disinfection have become the need of the hour. Indigenous robots are assisting doctors, nurses and other hospital staff to ensure all hospital activities run smoothly.

Coronavirus

Tackling Covid-19: The IIT Kanpur Way

IIT Kanpur has been proactive in the fight against covid-19, with cost-effective technological innovations to meet the dire needs of the country's healthcare

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