UNITED NATIONS

World Bank funds for agricultural research

Modified and making trouble

Since its inception, the agro-biotech industry has had a unique selling proposition -- transgenic crops need lesser herbicides/pesticides than …

India's strategies for rice congress

Manipulating Research

Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning …

Flood resistance rice comes to rescue

Domesti(cat)ed?

Domestic cat gives birth to a wild one, raises hopes of bringing back extinct species

A cloning dilemma

A decision to clone human beings raises questions on the safety and ethics of such projects

ANDi the modified

Raising the first genetically modified monkey rekindles debate

Cooking up mustard

This genetically modified plant is a marker of discontent

Cornucopia of cures

Genome of life saving bacterium is sequenced

Eugenics in black and white

People with fascism in their genes insist again that high intelligence is a White racial trait

Thou shalt lag no more

Engirreerbig a protest

Green gene

Games genes play

The 'selfish gene' is the one which loses in the long run and in this game, the meek survives

Scared of tests

My genes on your Internet

There's nothing virtual about the gene rush

Bytes

Microbial fervour is in the air

A question of labelling

Conservation not enough for the highly inbred Ranthambore tigers — they require genetic rescue

There is a need to facilitate active ‘gene flow’ into the Rajasthan tiger population from Central Indian tiger landscapes

GM crops: Here to stay

The Indian government is dead keen on GM crops. But what about a policy first?

America issues patents

Caught out

Fishing leads to fishy genes