Else, Bt may become ineffective

A struggle by farmers in Chhattisgarh to protect indigenous seed varieties from being appropriated by multinational corporations is snowballing into a major movement in the State.

Bid to revive morality, transparency issues in patents regime amid stiff resistance

US and EU to battle it out

In an era of a rapidly shrinking biological resources, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a historic landmark, being the first global agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. The CBD is one of the few international agreements in the area of natural resource conservation in which sustainability and equitable benefit-sharing are central concerns.

The Great Wall of China, built to hinder marauding tribes, hampers the flow of plant genes too. Members of the same species growing on either side are genetically quite different, indicates a new

The uk's Food Standards Agency (fsa) has sought the people's opinion on the controversial issue of genetically modified (gm) crops. The watchdog body seeks to engage a "citizen's jury', comprising 16

Human genome decoded completely

As we peek into our past, the number of our ancestors seems to double in every generation. For every human being has two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents and so on. By this yardstick, the number of ancestor

it is quite easy to undo the long process of evolution, a recent experiment shows. Just by rearranging the dna of a yeast species, researchers have turned one species into another. The genetic

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