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

Selling God's secrets

After 20 years of scepticism, increasing sales have finally convinced industries that genetic engineering holds the key to the future.

Turning dreams into reality

A cure for influenza and a substance harder than diamond: two of the products conjured up by designer science

Waking up livers with foetal cells

Scientists say foetal liver cells injected into patients suffering from severe liver failure can regenerate the damaged organ

Computers to map the human genetic code

Indian scientists have developed a computer programme that transforms a huge quantity of genetic data into an easily understood graphic on a …

Presidential criticism stings biotech firms

The days ahead are gloomy for the biotechnology industry in the United States, if the present downturn in the market persists.

Genetic fingerprinting catches on

Scientists are using DNA to be 99.99 per cent sure of an individual's and paternity in criminal cases

Patent paradox

Developing countries may get trapped by the brazen and unabashedly faulty bio-patenting model that a US firm is flaunting

How genes cheat

In order to promote themselves, certain genes resort to underhand tactics. Welcome to the realities of evolution

Suicidal growth

The debate over 'terminator technology' takes a new turn with the discovery of 36 sterility patent claims by public and private institutes the …

Dying very young

High mortality rate of cloned animals and unsuccessful attempts to clone monkeys worry researchers