From beer to recombinant DNA
...or how the ethical minefield of biotechnology has grown over time
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Dying of progress
As the reckless plundering of the world"s limited resources continues, nature is striking back where it hurts humans most: disease. People in some places are still paying the price of other people"s progress. So what makes planners think that they have a
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Quality takes back seat in agribusiness
USE OF additives, irradiation and the threat of pesticide residues and food-borne infections have led to the quality of diet being questioned these days as never before. Factory Farming comes as a
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Changing need in cattle feed
Scientific fodder comes of age in today"s era of specialisation and optimum use
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Hyperactivity In Hypersea
A new theory on how life moved from sea to land
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A kill for life
While whales must be conserved as a rare species, hunting the marine mammals is felt necessary for maintaining ecological balance
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Beacons for the blind
Associations lending a hand in preventing and curing blindness
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A revolution redefined
Troubled by the degradation of soil and water, French farmers are now switching to a more sustainable practise of agriculture
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Banking disasters
A one stop shopping facility at the World Bank for private corporations to meet their project financing and insurance needs in developing countries is worrying green crusaders
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The right to develop
A UNDP report links democracy with a better human development scenario
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New remedy
Researchers have come up with a new medication for diarrhoea
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Confronting cholera in Peru
The year long cholera epidemic in Peru refocussed scientific attention worldwide on the causes of the disease and the various strains of cholera bacteria.
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Simulating mother s milk
How formula feed can be enriched with nutrients found in breast feed
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Picture imperfect
Aerosol research is still in its infancy. Further studies will reveal the definitive long term impact of these tiny particles
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Food versus fodder
Increasing livestock in the Asian countries could result In lower foodgrain production
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New crop scheme for Punjab farmers
the seeds of a novel programme to reduce the rice-wheat predominance in Punjab's cropping pattern have been planted. The state recently launched a multi-crop, multi-year contract farming programme.
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Making the most of little plots of land
A Filipino research institute has blended agro forestry and bio intensive forming technicques to help small farmers produce more, without further burdening their packet.
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Will the Aral Sea ever come back?
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w
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Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?
A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what seems like fantasy science. The basis of this search is the belief that if death cannot be staved off forever, hum