Transgenic tomato ready for field trial

Monsanto at the receiving end of Bt cotton pricing policy

Monsanto losing price war with state governments

GM nut loses ground

Genetic approval committee rejects transgenic groundnut

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 …

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

Furore over GMOs

GM Crops put on hold

Amazon's genetic gold

Scientists decode genome of a bacterium with medical and industrial uses

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 …

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EU ministers clash on GMOs Again

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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

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 …

Row over relief

Bt: Acquiring shades of grey

Protein against peach potato aphid discovered

Syngenta fined for GM pesticide in corn

GM field trials now need panchayat nod