Times of India
Here’s how social media turbocharges the rising wave of health misinformation
Social media has turned everyone into a wellness expert. A gym selfie becomes proof of medical authority. A viral reel ...
Soapy cilantro? Bitter Brussels sprouts? Coffee with a chemical aftertaste? How genes shape our differing processing of food smells
In 2025, a major breakthrough came from Leipzig University, where genetic epidemiologist Markus Scholz led a sweeping genome-wide association meta-analysis ...
When does aging begin to accelerate? Earlier than most people think
A groundbreaking new study has revealed that your body doesn’t age in a straight line. Instead, it hits a sudden ...
Here is the skinny on Lilly’s weight loss pill that could be a blockbuster alternative to Ozempic and other GLP-1 diabetes and weight loss drugs
Orforglipron, developed by Eli Lilly, represents a significant advancement in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Unlike traditional ...
Viewpoint: Why India needs to swiftly embrace crop biotechnology
For more than a decade, we have been trapped in a stifling status quo, denying farmers the choice to embrace ...
India poised for U-turn: Country trades organic-only farm solutions for CRISPR gene editing
The Pinarayi Vijayan government seems to have taken a U-turn on its policy on genetic modification of crop seeds, with ...
Will cloning disease-resistant indigenous cows rescue the milk-producing market in India?
All births are special, but Ganga's was a milestone. This Gir calf born on March 16 this year is the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fake activism’ — How Indian activists promote misleading claims to sway public opinion against crop biotechnology and other science innovations
Fake activism is a dangerous tool that is used to manipulate public opinion and to further the interests of those ...
India’s potential approval of GM mustard may open door to insect-resistant cotton, anti-fungal potato and vitamin-boosted banana
While controversy has dogged the environmental release of genetically engineered (GE) mustard, other GE crops are being prepped at institutes ...
Viewpoint: ‘Activists and organizations spread lies about GMOs’ — Nobel laureate chides dogmatic political discourse, highlights decades of GMO’s safe use
Misinformation about science, especially genetically modified crops, need to be dispelled and they should be adopted as it is backed ...
How fetal facial scans can help identify serious diseases early
Nizam’s Institute of Medical Science and Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics research on inherited genetic disorders revealed that morphological ...
Can genetic screening improve your chances of finding a successful career?
We might not realise or give it any thought but the type of work we prefer, whether we pursue a ...
Viewpoint: India’s ‘retreat’ from GM crops in the face of dogmatic opposition will harm its farmers
In deciding to consider proposals for GM crop field trials only upon the recommendation of state governments, [the Indian government] ...
Bowing to political pressure, India scraps plans to trial GM, insect-resistant, Bt eggplant
[The Indian government] has junked its decision of allowing scientific field trials of transgenic crops including indigenously developed Bt brinjal. ...
Anti-GMO activists move to block Bt insect-resistant eggplant field trials in India
Ten years after imposing a moratorium on commercial release of genetically modified Bt Brinjal, the [federal government] has now allowed ...
Expert answers to 11 questions about Beyond Burgers, Impossible Whoppers and other plant-based meats
Bruce Friedrich is cofounder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (GFI), an international non-profit organization that .... is ...
India should ‘definitely adopt’ new GMO crops, nation’s top biotech cotton expert argues
The logjam in approval of newer genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds [in India] has catalyzed planting of unauthorized seeds known ...
India moves to restrict cultivation of illegal but easily acquired GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton
Amid reports of cultivation of [an] unapproved variety of transgenic HTBt [herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant] cotton seeds, the Union environment ministry has ...
Indian farmers highlight higher yields from banned GMO herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant cotton to defy nation’s biotech crop rules
As farmers [headed] to Yavatmal in Maharashtra to showcase post-harvest success stories of banned [herbicide-tolerant] cotton on [Jan. 5], their ...
Pro-GMO group in India offers legal services to farmers arrested for planting illegal biotech cotton
Soon after the police in Buldhana arrested farmer Vasanta Muley .... for possessing [illegal] cotton seeds .... Shektari Sanghatana — ...
Despite threat of arrest, pro-GMO protests in India spread across 11 districts in state of Maharashtra
A ‘pro-GM seed’ movement, which had begun in one district of Maharashtra with farmers defying [a] ban on planting unapproved ...
Viewpoint: India should stop bowing to ‘mindless opposition’ and approve GMO Bt eggplant
A couple of decades ago, some of our brightest gene scientists in India took the genes of a commonly found ...
Low cholesterol oil? Indian scientists developing CRISPR gene-edited groundnut
Soon, weight watchers and those with high cholesterol won’t have to think twice before picking up the jar of groundnut ...
Indian state Maharashtra waiting on federal government to ban sale of glyphosate herbicide
After questions were raised in a meeting chaired by union agriculture secretary over the rationale in issuing licences for sale ...
India’s food regulator proposes mandatory GMO labeling
Seeking to introduce GMO labelling for the first time in India, the country’s food regulator has proposed all packaged food products containing genetically modified ...
Indian farmers growing unapproved herbicide-resistant GMO soybeans, farmers union says
For the first time, illegal cultivation of a genetically modified (GM) food crop — GM Soyabean — which is herbicide ...
Indian scientists say anti-GMO activist groups undermine use of modern farming techniques
Days after a Parliamentary panel raised certain doubts over the Center's impending move to give its green signal to commercial ...
Indian scientist: Promoting ‘rich man’s’ organic food’ and delaying insect-resistant GMO eggplant hurts poor
Chairman of Review Committee for Genetic Manipulations (RCGM) Dr B Sesikeran ... said by stalling Bt brinjal [eggplant], India has only done more ...
