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Decoding life

Out of Africa

Stanford University researchers, by studying what are known as DNA microsatellites, try to explain the genesis and evolution of the Homo sapiens -…

Humans may follow

Manipulating life

Biological molecules hold the key to understanding diverse life processes and to correct aberrations

Arboreal witness

Using DNA to put them in place

Endless life

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The right match

If you want better genes, arranged marriage is the answer

Shapes of life

Jumping after all these years

A new taste

What makes us tick? Just a protein

Storing data as artificial DNA

Bound to be safe

Gene blues

What determines a person's behaviour through the vicissitudes of life: genes, environment or both? There are many who believe that genetic …

Computers to map the human genetic code

Indian scientists have developed a computer programme that transforms a huge quantity of genetic data into an easily understood graphic on a …

Genetic fingerprinting catches on

Scientists are using DNA to be 99.99 per cent sure of an individual's and paternity in criminal cases

The inside story

The interpretation of the genetic code of the baker's yeast has brought scientists to within a couple of steps of their final objective - …

Toying with the unborn

Is it right to experiment with the foetus? The US preparesfor another )8 controversial medical experiment

Malaria vaccine

A vaccine based on viral DNA is tested on humans for the first time

Froggy innovations

Old questions, new answers

Forever young

DNAs: the key to perpetual youth

TB revealed

Now that science has "decoded" the TB bacterium, a cure seems possible