How China reduced its reliance on US farm imports and sharpened its trade war toolkitBeijing has intensified efforts to reduce dependence on U.S. agricultural products amid escalating trade tensions. China has diversified su...
04 Mar, 2025, 12.10 PM IST
- Where are we going?
Yuval Noah Harari predicts mankind's future will branch into cybernetics, genetic engineering, and AI. Examples include Neuralink's brain i...
24 Oct, 2024, 11.20 PM IST
It’s time to embrace a new era of gene-edited foodGenetic alterations have come a long way. We arguably began doing it thousands of years ago, when we started selectively breeding crops for...
08 Jul, 2024, 09.47 AM IST
Meet the climate-defying fruits and vegetables in your futureRecently, it has been seen that too much sunlight is causing burns to the apple crops. Even the pests that farmers didn't ever use to see a...
26 Sep, 2023, 09.50 AM IST
The story of the purple tomato - and why its success is a win for GM foodsAlthough genetically modified foods still get a bit of a bad rap, there are actually many good reasons why modifying an organism's genetics...
22 Nov, 2022, 10.32 AM IST
Scientists make way for gene-edited tomatoes as vegan source of vitamin DA research team led by scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich have edited the genetic makeup of tomatoes to become a robust source ...
23 May, 2022, 11.14 PM IST
China drafts new rules to allow gene edited crops to overhaul seed industryGene editing is a newer technology that is seen as less risky than GM because it does not involve adding any foreign genes to a plant. Inst...
25 Jan, 2022, 10.37 AM IST
'My ambition? Another Nobel prize' says chemistry laureateWinning the Nobel prize is often the peak of professional achievement, but chemistry laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier, who received the cove...
10 Dec, 2020, 03.36 PM IST
View: Genome editing and lessons for IndiaIn the CRISPR system, a specific region in the bacterial genome collects small DNA snippets of the invading phage between repeat-spacer arr...
26 Nov, 2020, 09.56 AM IST
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna for developing genome-editing methodThey are only the sixth and seventh women in history to receive the Nobel in Chemistry.
07 Oct, 2020, 04.10 PM IST
Quantum Leap: New decade promises miraculous tech innovationsAs the internet has helped create virtual worlds and made the life easier, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ruling in the higher income hous...
28 Dec, 2019, 11.26 PM IST
20 technologies that could change your life in the next decadeThe decade that’s knocking on our doors now — the 2020s — is likely to be a time when science fiction manifests itself in our homes and roa...
28 Dec, 2019, 11.23 PM IST
Quantum Leap: Gene editing could prove to be a game-changerA Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, claimed last year that he had created the world’s first gene-edited babies using Crispr, to make them resi...
28 Dec, 2019, 11.20 PM IST
We want up to 10% of Syngenta revenue to come from India: CEO J Erik FyrwaldFyrwald, who was at Eluru to inaugurate a facility for product testing and development, said India is a critical market for Syngenta.
02 Oct, 2019, 11.42 PM IST
Government will continue to back GM research: DBT secretaryGene-editing policy for medical, agricultural purpose is also under consideration: DBT secretary Renu Swarup
24 Jul, 2019, 12.17 PM IST
'Chinese scientists control cotton disease with gene technology'Chinese scientists with the Institute of Microbiology of Chinese Academy of Sciences found that gene interference technology can prevent th...
04 Oct, 2016, 02.29 PM IST
- Viruses turn out to be new apps of biology
Synthetic biology uses synthesised DNA to create biological functions not found in nature.
25 Jun, 2012, 01.22 AM IST