Identity crisis

Patenting life forms

Europe approves the legislation for patenting organisms

Need a hand?

Geneticists examine how limbs were formed

Time for action

Researchers develop a system for field testing theories of evolution

Face-off

Increases in the concentration of just two chemicals can result in dramatic facial changes

Back to basics

Scientists decipher another human chromosome

The wild orangutans

Inherent dangers

Foreign-made welcome

But India's health care system has little space for indigenously developed biotechnology

Fighting back

GM food supporters attack ICMR report

French dilemma

GM vines trouble wine producers

Swiss bans GM for five years

Bytes

Chimp genome mapped

Will throw fresh light on human evolution

Papain has a new source

CHINA

Gluttony on vaccine

Seeds that discourage insects

Genetically-engineered pea seeds can successfully ward off voracious pests

Print of the species

MONEYMAKERS

Germ warfare

A new technique would help combat drug-resistant infections

Potato against diabetes

Seeds of discontent

Monsanto's experiments on "Bollard" cotton come underfire in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

'Religious technology'

Probe into poaching