Rogue GM crops wreak havoc

Monsanto’s unauthorised GM wheat in the US has spooked the world, but contamination is widespread

Why experts want GM freeze

Say regulatory system has grave deficiencies; challenge agriculture ministry’s claims

Manipulating research

Poor regulators do not a rich country make

Engirreerbig a protest

My genes on your Internet

There's nothing virtual about the gene rush

We are all the same

At first sight, two humans may seem to differ enormously. But looks can be misleading. Among animals, humans make up an unusual group. All humans …

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 …

Selling God's secrets

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

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 …

Foreign-made welcome

But India's health care system has little space for indigenously developed biotechnology

Completing the great gene jigsaw

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

Biodiversity or Biotrade?

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

Rooster recalls common past

Sound and fury

Monsanto talks too much. Misinformed activists rush in to burn fields in protest against the company. And India's government authorities, sitting …

Tracking India's wealth

India has come out with maps of its biodiversity-rich regions, one of the first countries to do so in the world. It was the fruit of a five-year …

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 …

Mesoamerican masters of biotechnology

Maize is undeniably humanity's greatest, and the first, feat of genetic engineering. But the success story cannot be attributed to modern humans. …

Selling God's secrets

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

Bt for Better Times?

Good weather, illegal Bt seeds raise Punjab's sagging cotton yields

Aliens!

Weeds acquire strange resistance to herbicides. Nature seems to go haywire. And causing all the confusion are genetically modified organisms, …

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 …

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 …

Poor regulation good reason to sideline Bt brinjal

MIAMI GROUP VS rest of the world

Are genetically modified organisms a miracle that will solve the world's hunger problems or a menace that will threaten human health, environment …