In cold storage

Fertility factor

Under pressure

Royalty dues

Gene blues

What determines a person's behaviour through the vicissitudes of life: genes, environment or both? There are many who believe that genetic …

Undercover bio-patenting

A recentforum on patenting life-forms in Munich chose to remain a hush-hush affair leaving out people's groups

Sleuthing errant genes

Virulent genes in disease causing bacteria may be 'disabled' with the help of a new identification method

Rio and Bioresources

BIODIPLOMACY: GENETIC RESOURCES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Edited by Vincente Sanchez & Calestous Juma African Centre for Technology Studies

Of life and death

A nematode reveals the secrets of the genetics of apoptosis (physiological cell death) and points to possible pharmaceutical breakthroughs in …

A question of ethics

At a recent conference on bio-ethics, scientists-expressed, the need to check the, misuse biotechnology

Caught you!

It is now possible to detect the most inconspicuous mutants -- even those having only slight aberrations

One big family

As we peek into our past, the number of our ancestors seems to double in every generation. For every human being has two parents, four …

India ignores biodiversity

Dilemma over food

With a taste for metals

Made to order plants that eat pollutants

YAWN!

The Indian Science Congress 2001 represented the state of science in India

Long yarn

The cotton story is a tangled tale. In many parts of India, farmers are committing suicide. It's been a while Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and now …

In Short

Gene-trapping baddies

Species, but not quite

Viruses, which display an easier capacity for mutation, could be nature's 'quasi-species'

Of genes - good and bad

Befuddling the enemy

Human genes going places

A genetically engineered lamb with human genes may help produce human organs

Right campaign

Heat proof