Genetica is cooperating with the National Innovation Centre to build a genetic decoding hub for Southeast Asia With the support of the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), gene sequencing tech group Genetica is to cooperate with the Vietnam National Innovation Centre (NIC) to build a genetic decoding centre for Southeast Asia, located at the NIC in Hanoi. The costs were not unveiled, but both sides expect the centre to be up and running before the end of 2021. As announced at a ceremony last week, the Genetica centre at the NIC building will be designed along with the same standards as its US-based lab, with the most rigorous set of standards for genetic testing in the world. Accordingly, Vietnam will be one of very few Southeast Asian countries running CAP and CLIA-standard genetic testing laboratories in order to create new discoveries regarding genetic diseases, developing gene therapy regimens, and researching new medicines based on Asian and Vietnamese genomes. It …