Fall of a premier institute

Amid funds siphoning allegations, future of National Institute of Pharma Education seems bleak

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

Loopholes in the Biological Diversity Act being used to export India’s genetic material

‘PESTICIDES’ IN DRUGS

Sharad Pawar’s provision for protecting test data in the Pesticides Bill could spill over into trade agreements and hit the drugs industry, too

US pharma strikes back

Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …

Fair farming

The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies

Trade truce

It was neither a victory for the North nor a defeat for the South. Environment took centrestage as the main bargaining chip, but the discussions …

Trail of a $500 m gene

How a rare African algae collected by a French academic turns into a commercial bonanza for an equity firm in Hong Kong. Are there any benefits …

Fake science, shady journals

India is way behind in the patents it files, the reason being that much of its science is of dubious quality

These lethal changes in India’s patent rules

The proposed amendments are a capitulation to Big Pharma and will undermine vital public health safeguards in the law

Basic Instinct

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

Fatal resistance

The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …

Partisan and patently painful

Patent prospects

Patent pains

A blunder undone

Royalties for folklore

Neem: the patent serial

Manipulating a patent

Budding clocks

Pfizer cries unfair

Biopiracy's bitter defeat

Protect the patient

Price control and compulsory licensing are essential

The Pill Bill

What this does to prices

New?

What is innovative? What can be patented?

Going desi