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

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

Beneficial feat

GM groundnut on the anvil

Warmonger

Global warming also reduces genetic diversity of wildlife

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

Adept at adaptation

Human genes are evolving with changing environment

Power switch

Drives cell like a hybrid car

Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?

Genome editing and synthetic biology are giving rise to new forms of life. But do these organisms have conservation value as part of earth's …

Genetically engineered foods safe for health, environment: Study

The report recommended that new crop varieties should be regulated on a plant’s characteristics rather than the process by which it was …

Jump, they say

Why do some gene fragments jump around from one place to another? Russians believe they have the answer

The melting pot

You never thought it could happen. For the first time, geneticists have combined genes from different species

Recipe for rice

The two recently-published incomplete rice genome sequences do not in any way undermine the ten-country effort at a complete sequencing of the …

"Alternative fuel helps us tide over oil crises"

LUIS FERNANDES, Brazil's deputy minister for science and technology, talks to T V JAYAN about his government's biodiesel project and its other …

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