Living for days on end 63 feet beneath the waves is a near-ideal situation for researchers studying undersea life, biologist James Lindholm says. Yet sometimes the best-laid experiments can go awry.

Philippe Cousteau, president of the environmental advocacy group EarthEcho International, said growing coral in captivity is "very cutting-edge stuff . . . there are only a few people doing it."

Laboratories using new tissue engineering technology might be able to produce meat that is healthier for consumers and cut down on pollution produced by factory farming, researchers said. While NASA

Mumbai scientists tinkering with the science of small things have

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Meat and milk from cloned farm animals is about to be declared safe for human consumption by the US Food and Drug Administration, one of the world's most powerful regulatory bodies. A favourable

When the human genome was sequenced two years ago, researchers held the blueprint of a human being in their hands - a nonsensical string of three billion DNA letters. But the project's promise of

Scientists said that they had developed from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory, early forms of cells that go on to form human sperm and eggs. The achievement, to be announced at a meeting of

Scientists working with mice said they had found a way to identify master cells in the brain and grow them in large batches