Researchers say the 3-foot-tall

The quantum leaps made by science in mapping the mysterious intricacies of DNA have been put to good use by scientists of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, currently engaged in a

A deeply divided UN General Assembly committee adopted a nonbinding statement calling on governments to prohibit all forms of human cloning, including techniques used in research on human stem

The first published map of human genetic differences offers a major step toward truly personalized medicine, from predicting who will get what disease to finding ways of choosing the best drug for an

Australian scientists claimed a world first Thursday after cloning a cow using a new technique. Brandy, a Holstein-Fresian czlf, was born in December after being created by researchers from

A third language area identified in the cortex

The scientist who created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, was granted a licence to clone human embryos for medical research. Professor Ian Wilmut, of the Roslin Institute in

Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain -- nor do lobsters and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the Norwegian government has found. "The common earthworm has a very

If awards were given for thinking up new ways to frighten people, Britain's animal-rights extremists would win lots of them. Their inventiveness and determination has frightened the government too.

as much as 60 per cent of chicken genes correspond to those in humans, according to scientists who prepared the first avian genetic map