Man vs monkey: The similarities don't seem to end. Sucking up to win the support of the boss dates back to our furry ancestors. And the motivation, for monkeys, is life and death. Rather than

Private stem cell majors like Reliance Life Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), LifeCell and Cryostem Karnataka Pvt Ltd will soon have to apply for licences under the Drugs and

It is not a widely known fact, but 25 per cent of the total tea produced in West Bengal and Assam, and other northeastern states is produced by small growers. Their contribution to the total national

A tiny bacterium that lives within an insect has by far the smallest set of genes ever discovered in a cellular organism. A US-Japanese research team reports in the journal Science that Carsonelia

A lawsuit against a stem cell transplant programme alleges that it failed to ensure its stem cells were in good condition and concealed problems from patients, a newspaper reported. The programme

After four years of extensive research at the nano technology laboratory at Delhi University (DU), Sheetal Soni has achieved a technological breakthrough that is likely to change the way brain

Kuldeep Singh had lost vision while hurling a bomb out of a DTC bus during the Oct 29 New Delhi blasts in 2005. Kuldeep Singh, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus driver, who had lost his eye

US researchers said on Sunday they had found a more efficient way to clone mice, and said their experiment solved a basic question about cloning science

studies carried out on the genes of a human and a chimpanzee provide a clue to why our brains are three times larger than those of our closest relatives. The studies were conducted by an

Hardly a week passes without a report on attacks on livestock and humans by crocodiles from the Bhitarakanika sanctuary in Orissa. Saltwater crocodiles in the breeding centre in Bhitarakanika often