Lab grown bat organ - organoids 🔆 Lab-Grown Bat Organoids: Advancing Pandemic Prediction ✅ Bats, vital to ecosystems, harbour viruses without getting sick but can transmit deadly diseases to humans. ✅ India hosts over 120 bat species, yet virological data is limited. ✅ Scientists developed bat organoids mimicking lungs, kidneys, and intestines to study virus behavior safely. ✅ Studies show kidney cells support MERS-CoV replication, while SARS-CoV-2 cannot infect bat respiratory tissue easily. ✅ Organoids help monitor emerging viruses and improve India’s pandemic preparedness through safer, precise research. ✅ Government launched an inter-ministerial initiative for bat virus research amid rising zoonotic risks. #pandemicpreparedness #batresearch #virology #bioscience #gs3 #science_technology