Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
a communication gap between the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (geac) and Department of Biotechnology (dbt) recently triggered a controversy involving an indigenous drug for acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). The geac ticked off Hyderabad-based Shanta Biotechnics Private Limited, the developer of the drug, for undertaking the clinical trials of the …
After a protracted debate over genetically modified (gm) maize in the uk, the British government is all set to approve the commercial production of the transgenic crop. The government advisers, however, plan to impose strict regulations on gm maize and ban commercial gm sugar beet and oilseed rape, since tests …
in what is perhaps the first-of-its-kind crackdown on a transaction pertaining to illegally developed genetically modified (gm) seeds, three traders from Madhya Pradesh (mp) were arrested in Shahpur taluk of Karnataka's Gulbarga district. They were allegedly buying spuriously produced Bt cotton seeds from local trader Vijay Kumar. But Kumar, the …
India has come out with maps of its biodiversity-rich regions, one of the first countries to do so in the world. It was the fruit of a five-year project, jointly undertaken by the Department of Biotechnology (dbt) and the Department of Space (dos), which began in 1997. The survey covered …
modified reality: Genetically modified (GM) sugar beet is more ecofriendly than conventional beet, as per an analysis. It is said to be the first to measure GM crops' impacts such as the contribution to global warming, damage to the ozone layer and toxicity to aquatic life. "Overall, GM beet is …
Maize is undeniably humanity's greatest, and the first, feat of genetic engineering. But the success story cannot be attributed to modern humans. A recent research shows that it is only due to the selective breeding efforts of ancient Americans that maize today has its huge ears, each packed with firmly …
One of New Zealand's biggest food companies, Goodman Fielder, has decided to exclude all genetically modified (gm) ingredients, including animal feed, from its products. New Zealand Greenpeace campaigner Steve Abel says the company's new policy is a victory for the New Zealand consumer. As the single biggest user and distributor …
for the first time in the world, a gene therapy for cancer has been given the go-ahead for commercialisation. The development could usher in a new era to treat the fatal disease. China's State Food and Drug Administration has approved the therapy after it achieved promising results during a clinical …
a recent analysis could radically improve the way humanity is trying to conserve the genetic pool of livestock. It shows that farm animals were domesticated in many locations in ancient times. The finding challenges the traditional views about animal husbandry. Many anthropologists staunchly advocate that domestication simultaneously took place only …
October 16, 2003 saw the release in the uk of Farm Scale Evaluations of GM Crops , the largest-ever field trials to be hitherto held. Commissioned by the uk government in 1999, the crops on trial were Bayer's oilseed rape, maize and fodder beet, and Monsanto's sugar beet. According to …
marine boom: An unprecedented census of marine life is reporting three new fish species a week on an average. In the first interim report of the census, an international team of scientists predicts that as many as 5,000 unknown fish species may be lurking in the waters. By the time …
gm on the platter: The US government has recently issued a notice to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for failing to comply with safety laws when it allowed offsprings of animals used in a genetic experiment to be sold as food. The pigs had genes from different species; the …
BOWING to activist pressure, Sri Lankan authorities have finally broken their silence about the mandatory labelling of genetically modified (GM) food in the island nation. Efforts are now underway to achieve a breakthrough in the matter though the powers that be are still non-committal. On September 29, S Nagiah of …
Going against the grain of a September 9 federal appeals court directive, Brazil has allowed farmers to grow genetically modified (gm) soya bean this year. In the process, the country has temporarily legitimised large-scale cultivation of the legume in its southern states. Farmers of this region had, for some years …
a bacterium commonly found in the Amazon rainforest promises to be a new source of ecofriendly plastic and life-saving medicines, if scientists who cracked its genetic code are to be believed. A consortium of 100 scientists, working for the Brazil National Genome Project, sequenced the genome of Chromobacterium violaceum. They …
The term genetically modified (GM) is highly controversial. While the science of transferring desirable genetic traits from one organism to another has applications in several fields
T he animal in us may just be a rat. A team of researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute (nhgri) and other universities in the us has found the human gene code to be more similar to that of rats than cats. The project involved comparison of a …
