French dilemma

GM vines trouble wine producers

Swiss bans GM for five years

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Chimp genome mapped

Will throw fresh light on human evolution

Digital diagnosis: intelligent machines do a better job than humans

Humans can only do so much when it comes to diagnosing a patient. So why not let machines take over? They learn faster …

Selling God's secrets

After 20 years of scepticism, increasing sales have finally convinced industries that genetic engineering holds the key to the future.

Revoked!

The cancellation of a US firm's rights on a method to genetically engineer cotton has brought weaknesses in India's patent system into focus

Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?

A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what …

What price the constitution?

Breakthroughs in genetic engineering have led to questions on the ethics of suchexperiments. Should scientists alone be steering the decision-…

The debate continues

Are genetically modified organisms good or bad? The debate continues and more and more people are getting involved on both sides

Dying very young

High mortality rate of cloned animals and unsuccessful attempts to clone monkeys worry researchers

Unsuccessful copycats

Mutations in cloned monkey embryos prove that a lot has to done before primates can be cloned successfully

There are ample facts to support biotechnology

CLIVE JAMES, chairperson, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications gives T V JAYAN and CLIFFORD POLYCARP his …

The double-edged sword

Picture this: A doctor draws out cells from a foetus to diagnose if it will develop into a normal child. A simple and quick test of the sample …

Seeds that discourage insects

Genetically-engineered pea seeds can successfully ward off voracious pests

Print of the species

Gluttony on vaccine

MONEYMAKERS

Germ warfare

A new technique would help combat drug-resistant infections

Potato against diabetes

Seeds of discontent

Monsanto's experiments on "Bollard" cotton come underfire in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

'Religious technology'

Probe into poaching

Gene trouble

The prehistoric mammoth throws a sophisticated modern scientific method into disarray

Cloned birthday

First birthday of two cloned heifers celebrated in Japan