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India looks to open agriculture to US corporates

Scientists unravel fungus responsible for Sheath Blight disease in rice

Researchers have identified several genes and gene families in the strain that might account for their disease aggressiveness

Helping addicts get through their withdrawal symptoms

The manner in which marijuana and heroin affect the brain can provide useful clues to developing more effective painkillers.

Biotech-engineered rice has few takers

Despite advancements, research programmes in rice biotechnology heve drawn lukewarm response because it is felt that there is little money to be …

Jumping on the biotechnology bandwagon

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A watered-down capitulation

Who should benefit from biotechnology? The South, where the genes originate, or the North, with its massive gene banks? Commercial interests …

Spare parts any takers?

The ethics of transplanting an organ from one species to another is debatable as the dangers involved are too many and unknown

Information superhighway

There is one in our genes. And scientists are surprised at the distance signals can travel along DNA strands

Sound and fury

Monsanto talks too much. Misinformed activists rush in to burn fields in protest against the company. And India's government authorities, sitting …

Code of misconduct

The human genome may not solve all our problems. One of the most far-reaching consequences of the decoding is the ability to predict people's …

Pest-resistant maize

From beer to recombinant DNA

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

Brazil

Small ancestry

Europeans descended from just 50 African migrants

Three is company!

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

Trials for the future

Monsanto gets ready to test modified soyabean in India

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Boosting biotech

Put on hold

GM mustard launch deferred

Real laureates

This year's Nobel prizes are truly grounded in practicality

Biotech blues

South African ad authority hard on Monsanto

Creating a family tree for rice

Scientists at the National Chemical Laboratory are working on rice biotechnology in order to develop more nutritious varieties of the cereal.

New biopesticide conquers mosquito larvae

Malaria is attaining near epidemic proportions in the country but researchers in Madras hold out a ray of hope. They have produced an …

Gene transfer yields pest-resisting rice strain

Darshan S Brar, who has been working for years on rice hybrids at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, talks about gene …