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MORE GENETIC ENGG INSTITUTES IN THE OFFING
I you missed this bit floating around for a while, the centre has pledged to promote more institutes for research covering basic and applied aspects in the field of agriculture, fisheries, floriculture and animal sciences.

Genetic Engineering units have been set up at
*Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
*Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
*Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

The government making efforts to set up a Centre for Genetic Engineering and Strain Manipulation at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and a National Centre for plant genome research in New Delhi to work in the field of plant genomics.

ET article

NEW PILL TO BLOW OUT THE SMOKE
Also, the US drug authorities have approved a new pill for smokers called 'Chantix' which as trials suggest would be successful in helping nearly 50% of the people undergoing treatment.
The drug could be soon on sale in Britain.
So there's hope at last, listening you guys!!

To see the full report follow the link :

Poping a pill could help smokers quit