Potato detector

Genes to the rescue

Modelled on mice

Genetically engineered test mice provide the ray of light in thalassaemia research

Turned on its head

A conventional theory on how a bacteria adopts tactics of self-defence stands questioned

Cloning calves

Virus mystery

It is difficult to predict the behaviour of genetically engineered crops to resist viruses

Demon seeds

Smart crops

Genetically engineered crops would bloom and produce pesticides for self defence only

Mutated future?

Is gene therapy really safe? Though most say yes, no one is absolutely sure

No heartaches

A protein promises a new lease of life to patients undergoing heart surgery

A new Odyssey

Geneticists discover nature's way of preventing interbreeding

Hitting the bull's-eye

Seeking an edge

BRAZIL

Feeling the heat

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

Mixed response

Brainy inheritance

Gendicine's hire

It is a gene therapy for cancer

Yielding to pressure

Huge step forward

Human genome decoded completely

Maladjusted

Modifying mosquitoes to fight malaria proves unsuccessful

State and scandal

Phenotype factors

Nature, nurture and noise

Rice with a human touch

Resistant to 13 herbicides

Gender parity

How it works in chromosomes