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

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 …

Come together

Delving into the underworld of matter, scientists are coming up with miniaturised miracles

Fact and film

Rogue genes induce brain disorders

The root cause of most disorders of the nervous system often lies with defective genes

Gene trouble

The prehistoric mammoth throws a sophisticated modern scientific method into disarray

Worm sutpnse

Red alert

'Tagged' viruses can warn us of an impending epidemic

Bird's eye view of biotechnology is useful

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Turned on its head

A conventional theory on how a bacteria adopts tactics of self-defence stands questioned

A new Odyssey

Geneticists discover nature's way of preventing interbreeding

The ethics of genetic combinations

The 17th International Congress of Genetics highlighted the role that genetic technology could play in shaping our world.

Jump, they say

Why do some gene fragments jump around from one place to another? Russians believe they have the answer

The melting pot

You never thought it could happen. For the first time, geneticists have combined genes from different species

Disease detector

Ruthenium-Iinked DNA strands can make genetic testing cheap enough to be commonly employed

Genome research

Gene remedy

The Human Genome Project could bring about a breakthrough in cancer treatment

Nobel laureate in race row

Nature's minor gifts

Even as microbes -silent and efficient behind-the-screen contributors to the ecosystem -continue to revel under the spotlight abroad, in India, …

Information superhighway

There is one in our genes. And scientists are surprised at the distance signals can travel along DNA strands

From beer to recombinant DNA

...or how the ethical minefield of biotechnology has grown over time

Blast from the ancient past

And now, green genes

Now, we can pin down those tiny chromosomes which help cancer spread its deadly web

DNA to test carcinogens

Chips made of DNA strands can detect carcinogenic chemicals