The thalidomide story explained

How a drug prescribed for nausea in pregnant women led to severe limb defects in their babies  

Another Kasaragod

Like Kerala’s Kasaragod, neighbouring Dakshina Kannada is bearing the brunt of spraying of endosulfan. While Kasaragod grabbed media …

MPS, a rare disease with costly cure

Will the government take steps to make treatment affordable for patients suffering from this genetic disorder?

Environment, genes and mutations

Pollutants in the environment cause dreaded diseases like cancer by mutating some genes. Scientists have begun to explore the human genome to …

30 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: a continuing disaster

An appraisal by Sunita Narain and Chandra Bhushan, exclusively extracted from the recently released book, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, After 30 Years

A hurried job

Karnataka government’s survey to estimate the scale of endosulfan tragedy is a half-hearted attempt

Children of endosulfan

Several unusual diseases afflict a Kerala village. Residents blame aerial spraying of the pesticide endosulfan by the Plantation Corporation of …

Can endosulfan be exported?

Supreme Court asks panel to explore possibilities of disposing of the pesticide  

SC extends endosulfan ban

Pesticide makers claim inbreeding, not endosulfan, causing health problems in Kasaragod  

Basic Instinct

In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera …

Genetics and the great Faustian pact

Older than age

Paralysing gene

Pre-natal healing

Culprit gene found

Geneless and immoral

Is it a gene defect?

Bubble baby

New for old

Replacement and alteration of defective genes is a milestone in gene therapy

Gene jitters

The stress-maker

Influential matters

Heterochromatin, a gene regulator, could be crucial for curing genetic defects

Lethal maternal cells

Toxic Tales

Breasting cancer

A pair of genes responsible for causing breast cancer have been nabbed