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Biotechnology has thrown open exciting new ways to detect and fight disease.

Phulchand Yadav, 55, is a mojar specialist who lives with his 12 member family in Dhamoul, a village of 1,200 households along the Punpun river. Besides farming his 1.5 ha holding, Yadav trades in cattle. Although Dhamoul is downstream of Motepur dam, i

Farmers of the future won't have to worry about pests, crop disease and herbicides.

A survey reveals that while using fertilisers, farmers are seldom guided by their price alone.

Genetically altered animals can produce vital proteins and serve as excellent models to study diseases.

Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.

Apart from the inherent problems of genetic engineering, the brave new technology is also plagued by questions of ethics and safety

Genetic engineering today means moving genes -- molecules that contain biological instructions -- from one species to another -- something that is virtually impossible in nature. The very definition

Rapid developments in human gene cloning and efficient gene-transfer technologies have opened up the possibility, in a sense, of producing transgenic humans. In the past four years, researchers have

Despite administrative efforts, financial resources and almost 10 years of research, Indian genetic engineers have been unable to come up with a recombinant DNA product that is commercially viable.