Fertility factor

Under pressure

Royalty dues

India ignores biodiversity

Dilemma over food

With a taste for metals

Made to order plants that eat pollutants

YAWN!

The Indian Science Congress 2001 represented the state of science in India

In Short

Gene-trapping baddies

Species, but not quite

Viruses, which display an easier capacity for mutation, could be nature's 'quasi-species'

Of genes - good and bad

Befuddling the enemy

Human genes going places

A genetically engineered lamb with human genes may help produce human organs

Right campaign

Heat proof

Speakeasy

Having trouble talking? Could be in your genes

Cloned to cure

Stunted growth

Researchers have found a gene on the tip of X chromosome that may influence human height

This and that

How the same genes play different roles in different animals

The aggression gene

An extra eye

In tune with music

The tendency to acquire the power of absolute pitch may be genetic

To build a nest

Time for action

Researchers develop a system for field testing theories of evolution

Genes and means

DNA exchange between plant species aided by their parasites