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. …
Organic foods are big business in the us. Since 1991, food sales have jumped 20 per cent annually, reaching US $3.4 billion in 1996, projected to grow to $6.5 billion by the year 2000. Land under organic crop cultivation has more than doubled since 1991 and organic dairy sales are …
l European activists, on a destructive binge, destroyed genetically altered crops wherever they could. In August 1997, an experimental crop of oilseed rape, owned by the US-based biotech corporation Monsanto, was destroyed by local residents at Tibs Hall Farm, Kingsbury, UK. The crop was uprooted and mixed with
Should gmos be banned or should caution be exercised in their introduction into the environment? If so, the need of the hour is a strong law to protect countries of the South. The us has already set the precedent by banning transgenic cotton resistant to the pesticide bromoxynil. The us …
To kill a caterpillar a virus was given a scorpion's gene. It was to take on caterpillars that fed on cabbage. The virus escaped beyond the trial area and acquired a taste for other delicacies and happily slaughtered many other non-target species, many on the protected list. To make matters …
Genetically engineered pigs would produce the human blood-clotting protein factor 8 in their milk. Administration of the protein is very important to haemophilia patients. Haemophilia is an inherited disease marked by defective clotting of blood. Such patients tend to bleed heavily following an injury. Bill Drohan and his colleagues at …
drug-resistant bacteria have been posing serious threats to human life for long. Now, researchers have developed a genetic engineering technique that helps render such bacteria drug sensitive. A team of researchers led by Sidney Altman at the Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, usa , used plasmids to infiltrate drug resistant …
the discovery of a new gene, has led scientists to create a portly breed of mice, with muscles two to three times bigger than those of normal mice. The discovery is of significance as it could help scientists to find treatments for muscular dystrophy or for the gradual muscle wasting …
Bio-crigineered mustard varieties which have yielded nearly three times the national average yields have been tested by New Delhi's Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI). Apart from the yields, the varieties have higher tolerance to draught and disease. These and various other technologies were on show at the annual Krishi Vigyan …
Biologists in Australia and Japan have genetically engineered tobacco plants so that they destroy their own seeds. They say the same technique should work in citrus crops. Anna Koltunow of the division of horticulture of the CSIRO, Australia's national research agency in Adelaide, and Fumio Takaiwa of Japan's National Institute …
genetic engineering is primarily based on the existence of a class of enzymes known as restriction enzymes. These enzymes are made by a large number of bacteria and have the ability to cut dna at or near specific recognition sites. Because of this property, when a piece of foreign dna …
Agracetus, a company in Middle town, Wisconsin, US , has genetically engineered cotton plants to produce fibres containing granules of plastic for making ultrawarm winter wear, carpets and insulation material. Maliyakal John of Agracetus injected cotton plants with genes from Alcaligenes eutrophus , a bacterium that makes a biodegradable plastic …
MUCH controversy later, EU countries have finally agreed upon rules to allow the sales of genetically engineered products. While food companies are naturally relieved at the outcome, the Eu decision has sparked off protests among environmentalists who have campaigned for long against the import of such products into the region. …
AS A result of industrial and mining operations, extensive acres of agricultural land are poisoned worldwide due to toxic effluents. Scientists at Oxford Universitv LJK, have found a possible solution to this growing menace by producing genetically engineered cabbages, cauliflowers arid Brussels sprouts, that would soak up toxic metals and …
Researchers at Nottingham university UK, have identified 35 different kinds of inheritable genes responsible for a frnit's colour, taste and ripeness through hormonal control. Experts will soon be able to produce a fruit with two to three different colours by reconstructing the inherited genes. Thereafter, people will be able to …
altered soyabeans from the us have raked up frenzied protests in both Switzerland and Germany. This has followed Europe's insistence that us segregate its genetically-engineered soyabean exports from the conventional crop. Europe is due for its first shipment of genetically engineered soyabeans developed by us chemicals group, Monsanto, by the …
sip in success: Dalmia Industries Ltd (DIL) has come up with a new cure for students having problems with remembering things. They have launched a memory drug Learnol, which is packaged both as a capsule and a child-friendly drink. It is an enriched potion containing the highly potent extracts of …
oral cancer is the most prevalent malignancy among Indian men. Now, scientists at the Cancer Research Institute ( cri ) in Mumbai have taken the first step towards curing the cancer with the help of gene therapy. They will use a genetically-engineered version of a virus called murine leukaemia virus …
it could be a while before genetically engineered products gain worldwide acceptance. The Switzerland-based multinational Ciba-Geigy's bid to market its genetically engineered maize suffered a setback when the issue, which was brought up at a meeting of European Union (eu) environment ministers in Luxembourg recently, did not secure majority approval. …
GENETICS could come to the rescue of cotton farmers in Australia. A genetically engineered pesticide will be introduced in the country to battle the pests which have devastated cotton crops. The enemy is the long-standing predator of cotton crops, the boll caterpillar, which has developed such a powerful resistance to …
