India: Field trials cleared for GM rice, wheat, maize, and other crops

Times of India | 
The following is an edited excerpt. It's the future of food. The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, under the environment ministry, ...

Couch potatoes are genetically lazy

Times of India | 
The following is an excerpt. Certain genetic traits may predispose people to being more or less motivated to exercise and ...

Men’s sex chromosome is “doomed”

Ani | Times of India | 
The following is an excerpt. The poorly designed Y chromosome, which makes men is degrading rapidly and will disappear, even ...

India: Agriculture experts, researchers support biotech center

Times of India | 
The following is an excerpt. Agricultural experts and researchers say proposals to have Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology in Ranchi ...

Experts: GM crops can only do India good

Anshul Dhamija | Times of India | 
The following is an excerpt. BANGALORE: India's biotechnology and healthcare services sector says numerous regulatory challenges are thwarting discovery, research and innovation. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, ...

India: Agriculture minister suspects U.S. lobbies of funding anti-GM campaigns

Ramu Bhagwat | Times of India | 
The following is an excerpt. NAGPUR: Union agriculture minister andNCPsupremoSharadPawar gave a new twist to the controversy on genetically modified (GM) crops like ...

Probe nails scientists for Bt cotton blot

Snehlata Shrivastav | Times of India | 
Probe nails scientists for desi Bt cotton blotTimes of IndiaThe report has found serious faults at each level, including the ...

Anti-GM activists rally in India

Alkesh Sharma | Times of India | 
Campaign against genetically modified food products takes rootTimes of IndiaCHANDIGARH: Even as MNCs are trying to woo various state governments ...

India: Will GM crops “cripple” traditional forms of farming?

Times of India | 
In what can be a disturbing trend, agriculture experts observe that after having introduced Bt cotton successfully in the state, ...

GM crops may not resolve food crisis, scientists say

Jayashree Nandi | Times of India | 
Genetically modified (GM) crops have so far been promoted as the 'breakthrough' technology that will help resolve food insecurity in ...

GM crops a solution for improving crop yield, say experts

Times of India | 
Genetically modified crops are an answer to improve crop yield and help maintain high food production, industry experts have said ...

Genes which determine human facial expressions identified

Times of India | 
Scientists have identified five genes that determine the human facial expressions ...

India: Give up the fear of GM crops, says Indian farmer

P. Chengal Reddy | Times of India | 
The parliamentary committee report on genetically modified (GM) organisms is an attempt to give a quiet burial to biotechnology in ...
Stem cells may help reverse diabetes

Stem cells may help reverse diabetes

Times of India | 
In a new study, researchers have successfully reversed diabetes in mice using stem cells, thereby paving the way for a ...
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India: ‘GM’ label on packaged food soon

Jayashree Nandi | Times of India | 
Soon Indian consumers will have the opportunity to know whether the packaged food that they are buying contains genetically modified ...

India: Move on GM crops provokes massive protests

Nitin Sethi | Times of India | 
The environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee — meant to regulate GM crop release — has been hit with a ...

Stem cell therapy helps paralysed man walk

Times of India | 
For nearly three years, Sundar (26) was waiting to be told that he could to regain control of his bladder ...

Cord blood banking takes off in India

Snehlata Shrivastav | Times of India | 
Nagpur is emerging as a big destination for companies associated with 'cord blood banking' or CBB. In the last few ...
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