Altering genes - Squirrels respond to global warming

Melting pot

Hardy wheat

Egypt's first GM crop

Rooster recalls common past

Nipping malaria in the bud

Scientists are focussing on strengthening genetically the defence mechanism of mosquitoes so as to render them inhospitable to the malarial parasite.

Bird's eye view of biotechnology is useful

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Completing the great gene jigsaw

An epiphanic understanding of gene sequencing at last seems to reveal the tale of life and death

Cyborg controversy

There's gaiety on the greens as the European Parliament drops a directive on patenting genetically-engineered life-forms

The metal gobblers

Genetically engineered crops could reclaim the vast areas of land poisoned by the rapid strides of development

Biodiversity or Biotrade?

Competing goals of free trade and environmental protection puts the much-awaited Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety indefinitely on hold

Caught by the gen(i)e

Scientists develop genetically modified mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria parasite

Darwin fast forwarded

Thanks to 'rapid evolution' every life form may survive any amount of pressure from its external environment, a study proposes

Phenotype factors

Nature, nurture and noise

Rice with a human touch

Resistant to 13 herbicides

Red tape loosened

Potato detector

Genes to the rescue

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