Dilemma over food

Under siege

Wild trouble

Trade threatens medicinal plants

Local apples fight scab better

Brain fog after COVID-19? Study shows severe infection can trigger expression of ‘old age’ genes

Inflammation, not virus infiltration in the brain, may be responsible for alteration in brain gene activity

In Search of the Forgotten Rice Varieties

If the current trend towards genetic uniformity in rice varities continues, our food security will be severely imperilled

Watch out for new COVID-19 strain, warns Niti Aayog’s Paul

Priority genome sequencing for those landing from the UK amid heightened surveillance

Trouble with doubles

The science of cloning is in the nascent stage

In court

When did humans first start to speak? How language evolved in Africa

Ability to produce speech sounds catapulted Homo sapiens into a world in which they would dominate all other species

Putting out new shoots

Whether it's increasing yields, cutting growth time of plants, increasing their resistance to disease or preserving genetic resources, scientists …

In Short

Who is protected?

The Lok Sabha passed Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Bill with complete amendments on August 9, 2001, twenty months after it …

Nobel Prize for chemistry for gene-editing: A gene engineer explains how it works

CRISPR has huge potential to transform how scientists can detect, treat and even eradicate diseases as well as improve agricultural products

French-American duo share 2020 Chemistry Nobel for ‘genetic scissors’

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools  

Coronavirus variants: why being more transmissible rather than more deadly isn’t good news

At the heart of this assertion lies an old foe that has plagued us right from the start of this pandemic: exponential growth

Good evil

Pollen from transgenic crops is now known to have a much wider reach. This could spell disaster as the control of these resistant varieties-turned-…

A nobel indictment of gene patenting

Legendary scientist James Watson files court brief against lunacy of gene patents

Starved of substance

No headway made at World Food Summit in accelerating efforts to eliminate hunger

Scientists decode genes of the house fly

Understanding the fly genome could help us improve human health and the environment

MIAMI GROUP VS rest of the world

Are genetically modified organisms a miracle that will solve the world's hunger problems or a menace that will threaten human health, environment …

ICAR’s shoddy science

Inquiry panel finds Bt cotton project had serious flaws, scientists were unethical

Ancient GPS? Older, evolutionarily unchanged part of the brain guides lost fish back home

This part of the brain might perform a similar function in other vertebrates, including humans

Bt Brinjal – the war goes on

Pro Bt Brinjal group releases a report challenging contention that the vegetable is used in medicine

Solving poverty

Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research …