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Should GM Crops Feature in the ‘Evergreen Revolution’ India Dearly Needs?

K. VijayRaghavan and M.S. Swaminathan 19/12/2018

K. VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the Government of...

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Chinese Geneticist Says Another ‘Potential’ Gene-Edited Pregnancy

Reuters 28/11/2018

He Jiankui, who has been challenged by several peers,...

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Chinese Scientist Apologises for Leak of Baby Gene-Editing Results

Reuters 28/11/2018

He Jiankui, who has claimed to have helped make...

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Chinese Scientist Claims to Have Helped Make World’s First Gene-Edited Babies

The Wire Staff 26/11/2018

He Jiankui, of the Southern University of Science and...

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Time for India to Set up a Framework to Use Gene-Editing Tech in Its Farms

Shambhavi Naik 25/08/2018

If India classifies genetic editing as gene modification, we...

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How a Battleground Between Bacteria and Viruses Is Being Used for Human Health

Ananya Sen 27/07/2018

Viruses can't replicate on their own, so they infect...

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Listen: Walking With Elephants, With Manan Gupta

Shruti Muralidhar, Navneet A. Vasistha and Abhishek Chari 18/06/2018

Manan Gupta talks about how reading Richard Dawkins helped...