Smooth as silk

How silkworms work

PQQ

First vitamin found in 55 years?

What makes us tick? Just a protein

Locked out

Animals to lose rescue home

Gold mine

US researchers identify 1.2 million bacterial genes

Relative remedy

Avian trouble

Influenza virus in Asia fast developing drug resistance

Super silk

Spider gene unravelled

What makes garlic pungent

Scientists discover the chemical responsible

Theory of evolution under scanner

Another body blow for the myth of choice

Missing link

Scientists have found fossil of a fish preparing to land

Bees know you

... by face

Online Web of life

Shells of everyday life

From jewellery, to food and medicine, shells have served many purposes

DNA and grey cells

Book>> GENES, CELLS AND BRAINS, THE PROMETHEAN PROMISES OF THE NEW BIOLOGY • by Hillary Rose and Steven Rose • Verso • Rs 1,550

Rock stars

Book>> Written in Stone, the Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth • by Brian Switek • Icon Books • Rs 5,499

The Sixth Extinction

THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE by Edward Wilson Publisher: Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press Price: $29.95

Bees before blossoms

A new finding suggests that bees may have been around about 100 million years before flowering plants appeared

Parasite expunger

Scientists claim to have identified the constituent of human blood that destroys a parasite which plays havoc with livestock

Medicine malady

A new study indicates that microbes can develop resistance even if the intake of antibiotics is minimised

Agouti : the prolific gene

A gene that determines coat colours in mice and affects cellular calcium might hold valuable clues to understanding human ailments like obesity

Of life and death

A nematode reveals the secrets of the genetics of apoptosis (physiological cell death) and points to possible pharmaceutical breakthroughs in …

Talking about sex

Male development is crucially dependent on the expression of a gene present on the Y cromosome

Cause for alarm

Studies show that a crop pest may evolve resistance to a biological pesticide Bt toxin more rapidly than believed

Offshore encounters

The future of the Galapagos islands is at stake as fisherfolk and conservationists fight for its resources