Outstanding grain

The aromatic enigma makes basmati a clear winner among grains. The lack of knowledge of what traditional basmati is and an inability to take …

Furore over GMOs

GM Crops put on hold

Amazon's genetic gold

Scientists decode genome of a bacterium with medical and industrial uses

Bytes

EU ministers clash on GMOs Again

Bytes

Biotech regulator approves GM mustard, now Centre to take a call

Biosafety mechanisms ignored, conflict of interest over GEAC panel as well, say experts 

GEAC approves field studies of GM mustard on honey bee

Similar approvals for Genetically Modified mustard were also given in March this year by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee

How Dolly was cloned

A HISTORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY·Michel Morange· translated by Matthew Cobb·Oxford University Press·pp336·Rs 495

Book review: Seeds of Contention

The good thing about this book is that it makes a clear attempt to scale down the shrill rhetoric of the gm debate. The sharp language and …

Debating GM crops: Let sound science, and so good sense, inform it

The Paris-based International Council for Science, a federation of more than 100 national science academies, has come out with the biggest review …

Row over relief

Trouble with doubles

The science of cloning is in the nascent stage

Genetically modified food: Whose health, whose business

People are concerned about the possibility of eating GM food.  Can we not expect the government to ensure that they have the right to choose?

Genomics could help cure cancer

Eugene W Myers , vice president for informatics research at Celera Genomics, usa , is the brain behind computer applications used to assemble …

China

Seeds of doubt

ARGENTINA

GM dispute

US and EU to battle it out

Mouse model

To study Down syndrome

Partial verdict

WHO endorses GM crops, overlooks negative reports

GM mustard: Need to address economic issues of using the crop

Some valuable lessons from Bt Cotton were who funds research and development and who will distribute the seeds

Germs of terror

As terrorists arm themselves with biological weapons, India wakes up to find how ill equipped it is to face this deadly reality

BJP parliamentarians back out of Monsanto-sponsored US tour

The delegation was to leave for the US on Saturday, according to media reports