Endless life

INDIA

The right match

If you want better genes, arranged marriage is the answer

Shapes of life

Jumping after all these years

A new taste

What makes us tick? Just a protein

Storing data as artificial DNA

Bound to be safe

Malaria vaccine

A vaccine based on viral DNA is tested on humans for the first time

Froggy innovations

Old questions, new answers

Forever young

DNAs: the key to perpetual youth

TB revealed

Now that science has "decoded" the TB bacterium, a cure seems possible

Get a grip on your hormones

A French scientist shows how to control the hormonal response of your body

Fifth wheel

In the natural world away from the laboratories, redundant genes are not really useless

Come together

Delving into the underworld of matter, scientists are coming up with miniaturised miracles

Fact and film

Rogue genes induce brain disorders

The root cause of most disorders of the nervous system often lies with defective genes

Gene trouble

The prehistoric mammoth throws a sophisticated modern scientific method into disarray

Worm sutpnse

Red alert

'Tagged' viruses can warn us of an impending epidemic

Turned on its head

A conventional theory on how a bacteria adopts tactics of self-defence stands questioned

A new Odyssey

Geneticists discover nature's way of preventing interbreeding

Disease detector

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