Biotech park

Final solutions

Scientists are using the DNA as a computer to solve complex problems

Catch 22

PATENTING PLANTS

Grapes sans charisma

Rajasthan seed initiative wilts

MoUs with biotech seed companies in limbo as protests force a rethink

Red tape loosened

BRAZIL

Feeling the heat

It has been fortnight full of bad news for biotech firm Monsanto

Monitoring GM foods

Accord on global management of biotech foodstuffs

NCCS scientists find new microbial species in Sambhar lake

Archaea among most primitive life forms, one of 3 main domains of life

Scieniists perfecting protein-rich potato

Three missions

Lab-made pyrethrin will hi t Kenyan growers

Technology's business

American Marriage of Business and Technology Robert Teitelman Basic Books

Cancer solutions

Stopping blood supply to tumours appears to be a potent way to tackle cancer

Roots of paucity

US policy limits agricultural yield of poor nations

Revised menu

India looks to open agriculture to US corporates

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

BIOTECH COMPENSATION