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DNA profiles match relatives to bodies after train accident
The agonising wait to claim the bodies of victims of the Nanded Express fire accident continued for their kith and ...
GM crop field trials cleared in India despite government official’s reservations
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan of Maharashtra has cleared “no objection certificates” for confined field trials of several genetically modified crops, ...
Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts: protesting GM crops is a ‘crime against humanity’
Nobel Laureate Richard J. Roberts said that protesting the use of genetically modified crops is a “crime against humanity" while ...
Does genetics explain height differences among Indians?
Recent research has shown that there is a clear correlation between state domestic product and average height. Yet data on ...
Biggest threat to tigers is their own limited gene pool
The skin and bones of long-dead tigers from the days of the British Raj have helped reveal how the latest ...
Sixty years of a (flawed) DNA worldview
The following is an excerpt. The popular notion of the double helix being the main and the only player in ...
India urged to adopt autonomous biotech regulatory authority
Noted agricultural scientist and Rajya Sabha member M.S. Swaminathan on Tuesday stressed the need for putting in place an autonomous ...
Scientists create map of human brain
A comprehensive atlas of the adult human brain that reveals the activity of genes across the entire organ has been ...
India: Bar GM food crops, says parliamentary panel
In a major setback to the proponents of genetically modified technology in farm crops, the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture on ...
Banana genome sequence will aid crop improvement
Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of the banana, an important crop in developing countries that provides a fruit widely ...
