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Chavali Kameswara Rao, Executive Secretary of Bangalore-based Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education, dispels fears over the proposed Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India.
Archana Sharma, staff physicist at Europe's high-energy physics laboratory CERN near Geneva, says hunting down the elusive Higgs boson make for some thrilling times in the history of physics. However, we still need more data to say 'Eureka', she reports from CERN.
One of the final goals of systems biology is to recreate and design life in silico. Researchers are stitching together pieces of molecular inventory to create virtual microbial cells, says Pawan Dhar.
Constructing a virtual cell out of a real cell calls for massive number crunching of experimental biological data into computable units. The key is to use the right combination of methods and tools, says Pawan Dhar.