Gender bender

Low oxygen induces sex change in fish

Ominous gene transfer

Genes from drug-resistant bacteria enter bacteria in soil and water

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

Biodiversity—India’s other scandal

CAG slams the national biodiversity authority for allowing questionable patents

Bytes

The loss of our breeds

Buy an Indian breed from Australia

A sticky label

US biotech industry gears up to play dirty in Europe

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

In Brief

Curious case of seaweed

AquAgri pays highest sum in royalty but benefits do not reach people

Science and Technology - Briefs

Reluctant funding

Compromise on resources salvages CBD conference; marine protection gets big boost

Basic Instinct

In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …

Not ready for Roundup Ready

Notwithstanding the resounding failure of its Bt cotton, Monsanto has begun to introduce another genetically modified crop into India, its …

Causing a flutter

The safety of genetically-engineered crops comes under a cloud after the deaths of the monarch butterflies in the US

Pink bollworm a potent threat to GM cotton

The quest to promote Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton may suffer a serious setback with scientists from the US-based University of Arizona …

Seeds for Iife

Scientists and NGOs find common ground in ensuring that farmers possess the divers they can use and conserve

Weed menace

Careless dumping of genetically modified canola plants triggers an outcry in South Australia

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 …

The original Mus

Researchers zero in on the Indian subcontinent as the possible birthplace of that most evasive of pesky mammals - the house mouse

I won't and you can't

The bureaucracy does nothing to conserve India's invaluable animals and plants. But it knows how to cry wolf when private agencies want to use these

Sexual distinction

A new technique enables the determination of the sex of cattle and goats at the embryonic stage

Leaders in agony

A recent theory which says that the dominant animal in a pack bears the proverbial cross might lead to more systematic studies of relationships …

Cutting it short

The Biosafety Protocol has just been adopted. In some ways it is a step forward. But it may turn out to be powerless to check trade in …