Disease detector

Ruthenium-Iinked DNA strands can make genetic testing cheap enough to be commonly employed

Gene trap

Tumour Tamer

A gene has been discovered in the US that may help prevent cancer and other diseases

Genetically high

Whose wealth?

Genome research

Hybrids of eucalyptus

UNITED NATIONS

Karnataka farmers upset over Bt cotton

Zimbabwe row over GM food aid ends

United colours of humanity

Racial discrimination is a product of convictions and can be easily eradicated

Ball in Public's court

Update

Regulating GM food imports

Business community supports Sri Lankan government

Jumping on the biotechnology bandwagon

BIOTECHNOLOGY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS -- ISSUES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Edited by E J Da Silva, C Ratledge and A Sasson Publisher: …

A price on the living

Environmentalists allege that the European Parliament has sold out to multinational firms by allowing patents on lifeforms

Nature's minor gifts

Even as microbes -silent and efficient behind-the-screen contributors to the ecosystem -continue to revel under the spotlight abroad, in India, …

"The UK has to live by its wits"

DAVID ANTHONY KING has been chief scientific advisor to the United Kingdom government for 3 years now. Prior to this, he was head of the …

South Asia

Careless losses

From beer to recombinant DNA

...or how the ethical minefield of biotechnology has grown over time

PIPPHILINES

Saving genetic heritage

Three is company!

A fertility treatment spawns babies with the DNA of three parents, instead of two

Brazil