Self -defending spuds

Potato plants that poison pests

Permit cancelled

For the sake of caution

A decision to refuse clearance to GMOs should be based on good science and policy

GM aid

Impasse over biotechnology offers no solution to the world's hungry

Cultivating Europe

Middle Eastern farmers carried agriculture to the West

Growing tension

Transgenic crops lose ground

How fields of different GM crops are spaced may be crucial to their survival,

Transgenic tomato ready for field trial

Monsanto at the receiving end of Bt cotton pricing policy

Monsanto losing price war with state governments

GM nut loses ground

Genetic approval committee rejects transgenic groundnut

Aliens!

Weeds acquire strange resistance to herbicides. Nature seems to go haywire. And causing all the confusion are genetically modified organisms, …

Furore over GMOs

GM Crops put on hold

Amazon's genetic gold

Scientists decode genome of a bacterium with medical and industrial uses

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EU ministers clash on GMOs Again

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Poor regulation good reason to sideline Bt brinjal

Generating electricity from speed breakers

GEAC approves field studies of GM mustard on honey bee

Similar approvals for Genetically Modified mustard were also given in March this year by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee

Biotech regulator approves GM mustard, now Centre to take a call

Biosafety mechanisms ignored, conflict of interest over GEAC panel as well, say experts 

How Dolly was cloned

A HISTORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY·Michel Morange· translated by Matthew Cobb·Oxford University Press·pp336·Rs 495

Book review: Seeds of Contention

The good thing about this book is that it makes a clear attempt to scale down the shrill rhetoric of the gm debate. The sharp language and …

Debating GM crops: Let sound science, and so good sense, inform it

The Paris-based International Council for Science, a federation of more than 100 national science academies, has come out with the biggest review …