Beware the modified wolf
Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of …
Environment, genes and mutations
Pollutants in the environment cause dreaded diseases like cancer by mutating some genes. Scientists have begun to explore the human genome to …
Science and Technology - Briefs
Sri Lanka regulates GM food import
Legally modified
Government plans for GM food labelling in India
Rotten tomato for Monsanto
US biotech giant's claim on a natural tomato is its latest patent to be revoked by Europe after soy and wheat
Farmers in tech trap
Cotton cultivators are on a seed and pesticide treadmill that is draining them of traditional skills
GM crop benefits are all in future
Nearly 40 years ago, Marc Van Montagu of Ghent University in Belgium, along with fellow researcher Jeff Schell, discovered that Agrobacterium …
Algae alleviates
South African townships that were earlier helpless in the face of pollution caused by human wastes, are now bucking up to the problem. Spirulina, …
400,000 people petition parliament panel to withdraw BRAI Bill
Deadline for public feedback on biotechnology Bill expires August 25
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Why experts want GM freeze
Say regulatory system has grave deficiencies; challenge agriculture ministry’s claims
Regulatory battle
Industry and activists have expressed conflicting opinions on GM crops. GEAC has a difficult decision to make
Access, yes. Sharing, no
The access and benefit-sharing protocol on biodiversity may do little to deter multinationals from grabbing the planet’s resources
Rajasthan scraps seed pacts
ICAR tells Rajasthan to wait for guidelines on benefit sharing, biosafety
ABCDE of Obama’s sales pitch
Bill Gates, Grand Challenges and Indian Science Congress
The Bill Gates Foundation has invited Indian innovators to send in their ideas that could change the world. But India needs more solutions to its …
Act of omission
Public institutions do not seek permission from the biodiversity authority before genetically manipulating crops
Solving poverty
Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research …
Scientifically invalid
Inter-Academy update on GM crops does little to redeem Indian science
Rajasthan opens farm gates
State ties up with Monsanto, other biotech giants to restructure agriculture
It’s still open season for bio-piracy
Rich nations block accord on benefit-sharing rules for the world’s genetic resources
Whose germplasm is it?
NBA struggles to frame case against Mahyco in first biopiracy case
Chhattisgarh proactive in checking illegal BT rice trials
‘Stopping GM trials is anti-farmer’
Genetically modified (GM) mustard hybrid DMH-11 developed by Delhi University’s Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants ran into …