United front

Y files

Males will not become extinct

Revolution in understanding evolution

Internet review: http://www.gpgnet.net

For global public good

Cancer fighter

How a molecule stops unhealthy genetic activity

Gene control

How humans differ from primates

Rooster recalls common past

SAARC gene bank yet to open an account

SAARC's proposal to set up a gene bank is still hanging fire though Northern countries have already started to privatise their genetic resources

Should life forms be patented globally?

Patents are monopoly rights granted to the inventors to protect their economic interests. But this becomes complicated when the patent is …

Slow down, ageing cells

We can live healthy lives well into our hundreds, science claims, but is ageing really a disease that can be cured? Scientist are now looking at …

A question of heredity

The environment in which an embryo develops influences gene expression and some acquired traits can be inherited

Disease and genetics

Finding a link between genes and the evolution of disease can give a new dimension to drug development

RNAs online

Scientists discover how molecules travel along a veritable 'information superhighway' inside plants

Public property

It is good to hear Western leaders say the genetic secrets of human life should be used for public good

Caught by the gen(i)e

Scientists develop genetically modified mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria parasite

Darwin fast forwarded

Thanks to 'rapid evolution' every life form may survive any amount of pressure from its external environment, a study proposes

In short

Genesis of a crisis

Genetically branded

Genetic cure

Remedying defects

Flab control

Genes have a fair share in determining a person's predisposition to obesity

For self defence

With the help of highly reactive oxidative substances, plants manage to keep pathogens at bay

TB bacterium unravelled

Genetic defence