Ban on altered crops

Blood from animals

MONEYMAKERS

Whose verdict anyway!

Ready to eat?

Orissa's biotech policy 2005

Biodiversity, farmers' interests at stake

Biotech for all

Can information sharing make

How date palm seeds can remove toxins from the environment

Date seed oil could clean up polluted water and war-ravaged sites

CAG exposes financial irregularities in science, environment-related ministries

Setting up of a faulty bio-safety facility resulted in wastage of Rs 1.90 crore

Organic uplift

Onco-mouse raises hackles

Designer vegetables

The cost of gene info

A debate rages in England over the possibility aind scope of insuring genetic information

BIOGENETICS

Cultured to propagate

Tissue culture helps scientists protect endangered flora

This and that

How the same genes play different roles in different animals

Drugs aimed at specific genes

It is a possibility thanks to a seemingly insignificant scientific observation

No mistakes

Patented stars

Famous people may patent their DNA

Biotech blues

Lack of transparency afflicts India's biotech industry

Biotech parley

A conference on biotechnology in Bangalore failed to live up to its hype

Nepal's biotech vision

Foreign-made welcome

But India's health care system has little space for indigenously developed biotechnology

Plainly partial

Draft biotech strategy favours industry; omits biosafety

Stop replication

Viral genome reveals the way to check attacks on tassar