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VOLUME 41 |
NUMBER 5 |
MAY 2004 |
CONTENTS
COVER STORY |
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Cloning For Customized Cures Sukanya Datta, Parvinder Chawla, Hasan Jawaid Khan, B C Sharma |
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ARTICLES |
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Distress Call Of An Ancient Mariner—The Sea Turtle Story
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Transgenic Fish |
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Detecting Deception |
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FICTION |
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· The Pisteria Syndrome by Malvika Dekhane |
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COLUMNS |
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CAREER: Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry |
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HEALTH: Hypertension: A Silent Killer |
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DEPARTMENTS |
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READERS WRITE |
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IN FOCUS |
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SPECTRUM |
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FACT FILE |
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· Star Watch: Constellation Andromeda |
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· Indian Icons: P. C. Mahalanobis |
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· Herbal Healers: Sweet Wormwood |
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· Ingenious Inventions: Striking a Match |
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QUIZ TIME |
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CROSSWORD |
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POINT-COUNTERPOINT |
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· Should Human Cloning be Allowed?
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JUNIOR SCIENTIST |
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FUN QUIZ |
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DID YOU KNOW? |
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HUMOUR |
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ENTERTAINMENT ARENA |
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SCIENCE PROJECT |
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· Float Your Boat |
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PUZZLE CORNER |
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HOW? |
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WHY? |
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Sukanya Datta, Parvinder Chawla, Hasan Jawaid Khan, B C Sharma
Therapeutic cloning promises to be a real Pandora’s box. The article deals with the promise that therapeutic cloning holds out for treating many hitherto untreatable diseases.
Vol. 41, May 2004, pp 16-19, 49
Basudev Tripathy
Five of the seven species of sea turtles found worldwide are reported to occur in Indian coastal waters and the Bay Islands. But a lot needs to be done for the conservation of these turtles. The article chronicles the sea turtle saga.
T. S. Nagesh and Ashok Hegde
To provide the much-needed thrust to aquaculture industry, it is important to create transgenic varieties of fish. The article deals with the story of how biotechnology is providing a much-needed boost to aquaculture.
Amod Kumar Singh
For as long as human beings have deceived each other, people have tried to develop techniques for detecting deception and determining the truth. The article dwells on several advanced techniques that are being used today to get round the veil of deception and catch the real culprits.