Just as the atom and the byte needed careful societal control to prevent damage to society, perhaps, so does the gene, particularly in debates like 'genes vs merit', explains Ajit Balakrishnan.......
Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz from United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their pioneering work on the ribosomes, which may help......
Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Concert Hall in Stockholm on Thursday. Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf presented the highest honour in the......
India-born Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as president elect of Britain’s prestigious Royal Society. The result of a ballot held by the fellowship was......
Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a senior scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 along with two others,......
Internet is aggravating the digital divide between the literate and the illiterate, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said in New Delhi on Wednesday. Internet’s contribution is in "making......