Dr. Minal Dakhave Bhosale, Mylab’s R&D Chief who headed the team that designed the first Made in India coronavirus testing kit called Pathodetect even when she was in the  last stage of her pregnancy. Bhosale’s efforts paid the price with her team delivering the testing kit in a record time of six weeks.

   Minal Dakhave Bhosale gave birth to a baby girl just a day before submitting the kit to the authorities for evaluation. “It was like giving birth to two babies,” Bhosale told PTI.The virologist said both the journeys – that happened in parallel – were not without challenges.

   “There were complications in the pregnancy while work on the test kit was on. The baby was delivered through caesarean,” she said. Bhosale said she felt that it was the right time to serve the people to help them in combating the coronavirus threat.

   “I had been working for....