Probiotics market thrives sans regulations

Indian food safety authority yet to specify deadline for notifying regulations for food products containing 'friendly' microorganisms

How competent is Indian science?

A shoddy inter-academy report on GM crops casts a shadow on the integrity and competence of Indian science, while a US expert finds approval for …

Dengue grips Delhi: virus strain circulating this year more deadly

Serotype DENV 2 has returned after a gap of a few years, which could be a reason for higher number of cases this year

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 …

Rogue GM crops wreak havoc

Monsanto’s unauthorised GM wheat in the US has spooked the world, but contamination is widespread

Monsanto told to quit India

Farmers from 20 states to present national flag made from non-Bt organic cotton to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for Independence Day

"The North is driven by the industry"

Christine von Weizsaecker is a senior microbiologist based in Wuppertal, Germany and the vice-president of Ecoropa, the premier European …

Idea of farmer wisdom is relentlessly manipulated

As a visiting American academic, Glenn Davis Stone has put in over 60 weeks of field research on the impact of Bt cotton on farmers in Andhra …

Technology needs stewardship

Keshav Raj Kranthi, an entomologist by training, is director of the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur. He has developed an extensive …

At an atom's level

Nanotechnology has immense potential, but it is also a little-known area with many dangers

Biotechnology blueprint

Needs work before it can be a second infotech

Father’s missive

Letter>> Genetics • The UK

Putting colour into pelts

Scientists say a pair of genes are responsible for lending colour to animal furs.

Bio-sensing diabetes

Unlocking secrets

Moss genes may enable crops to survive drought

Patent problems

An surge of gene patents in Europe threatens to overwhelm the law

Human proteins

Bioengineered crops seem to be a cheap way of producing proteins and enzymes

Spare parts

Scientists produce human tissues from human embryos and fetuses

Patenting mutations

Silenced for good

A method to stop multiplication of the malaria parasite

Ban terminator

Monsanto breaks its vow

ICAR researchers produce coconut palm plantlets using tissue culture

The study will have applications for the farming community

Stars in the Nobel firmament