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Nature 436, 480-483 (28 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436480a; Published online 27 July 2005

India Biotech boom

K. S. Jayaraman1

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India's thriving biotechnology industry is threatened by a change in the law. Will the current high levels of investment be enough to secure its future? K. S. Jayaraman finds out.

Every year, on the presumed birthday of Krishna, the blue-skinned Hindu god, New Delhi's Mathura Road is choked with traffic. Buses, cars and bullock carts packed with devotees advance toward Vrindavan, where Krishna is believed to have been born 5,000 years ago.