In this issue
p. 0507

Coming of age in biotechnology
p. 0509 | Balaram, P.; Ramaseshan, S.

An assessment of the current Indian scene in biotechnology
p. 0510 | Padmanaban, G.

The role and present status of biotechnology in India
p. 0513 | Bhargava, Puspa M.; Chakrabarthi, Chandana

Goverment funding and support-the Department of Biotechnology
p. 0518 | Ramachandran, S.

Interfacing biological, Physicochemical and engineering sciences
p. 0524 | Basu, Imtech Sandip K.

Basic and biomedical product-oriented research-the National Institute of Immunology
p. 0528 | Raghupathy, Raj; Hasnain, Seyed E.

Strongly goal-oriented biomedical reseach-Astra Research Centre India
p. 0533 | Ramachandran, J.

Biotechnology programme at Poona U- the beginning or the end?
p. 0537 | Sitaramam, V.

Biotechnology training-innovative teaching and liaison with industry, MSU Baroda
p. 0540 | Modi, V. V.

Bioprocessing-the need of the day
p. 0542 | Jayaraman, Kunthala

Biotechnology in crop improvement
p. 0543 | Chopra, V. L.; Sharma, R. P.

Plant biotechnology in India-the role of plant tissue culture
p. 0547 | Mascarenhas, A. F.

Biological nitrogen fixation in the context of Indian agriculture
p. 0551 | Das, H. K.

Genetic studies in the higher animals: new strategies
p. 0556 | Gowrishankar, J.; Radha, V.

The Drosophila nervous system as a model for analysing gene expression in complex organisms
p. 0562 | Vijayraghavan, K.; Palazzolo, Michale J.; Rodrigues, Veronica

Molecular basis of immune response against parasite
p. 0569 | Bhattacharya, Aloke; Bhattacharya, Sudha; Sehgal, Devinder

DNA profiling and its applications
p. 0580 | Singh, Lalji

A novel approach to design of cis-acting DNA structural element for regulation of gene expression in vivo
p. 0586 | Sarkar, Parthas S.; Bagga, Rajesh; Balagurumoorthy, P.; Brahmachari, Samir K.

Cloning of the catalytic determination of soluble phosphofructokinase of yeast
p. 0591 | Lobo, Z.; Mehta, R.; Maitra, P. K.

Alteration in the '- 10' sequence of the A2 promoter of bacteriophage T7 reduces the rate of transcription initation
p. 0594 | Kumar, K. Prasanna; Gopal, Vijaya; Chatterji, Dipankar

Microinjection of rat growth-hormone gene into zebrafish egg and production of transgenic zebrafish
p. 0596 | Pandian, T. J.; Kavumpurath, Soosamma; Mathavan, S.; Dharmalingam, K.

Imparting hydrogen-recycling capability to Cicer-rhizobial strain by plasmid pIJ1008 transfer
p. 0600 | Vasudev, Sujata; Lodha, M. L.; Sreekumar, K. R.

Transient expression of GUS and CAT genes in electroporated rice protoplasts
p. 0603 | Harbinder, S.

Intellectual property and protection of right in biotechnology
p. 0606 | Varadarajan, S.

New from SHIMADZU
p. 0610

Radioisotopes
p. 0611

The health foundation
p. 0612