Biotech & Health Science — Vol. 1 — Genes, vaccines, therapies and India's regulatory frame. A complete volume in the Anantam IAS series, running to 28 chapters across roughly 249 pages. Each chapter stands on its own, so you can read the book straight through or jump to the one topic you have not covered yet.

What is inside

Every chapter here is an article already published on anantamias.com, edited into a single sequence and typeset as a book. On the site you meet these topics one at a time, in whatever order search happens to send you. Here the whole subject sits in one place, in an order that builds. The PDF is fully searchable, so you can jump to a scheme name, an article number, or a case name directly.

Who it is for

Aspirants preparing for the UPSC civil services examination and state public service commissions, and anyone who would rather revise from one continuous document than from a browser with thirty tabs open. It suits a first pass through a subject and it suits revision, because the contents list doubles as a syllabus checklist.

How to use it

Read it once end to end to get the shape of the subject. Come back to the individual chapters where you felt least confident. Close to the exam, skimming only the headings and tables does most of the work. The file is free, so download it and keep it offline rather than relying on a connection the night before a test.

Full contents

1. Genetic Medicine and Gene Therapy
2. GenomeIndia Project Explained
3. Biotechnology in India: Applications & UPSC Notes
4. Genetic Engineering & GM Crops in India: Bt Cotton to GM Mustard for UPSC
5. Stem Cell Research: Types, Applications & Ethical Dimensions for UPSC
6. Cancer Vaccine Russia: mRNA Breakthrough & Global Implications
7. HPV Vaccination Drive India: Cervavac Vaccine & Rollout 2026
8. Agri Biotech, Liquid Nano Urea & Nano Inputs (UPSC Science & Tech)
9. DNA Fingerprinting — Technique, Applications, DNA Technology Bill (UPSC Science & Tech)
10. DNA Profiling & Forensic Science (UPSC Science & Tech)
11. Gene Therapy — Types, Techniques, India’s First Approvals (UPSC Science & Tech)
12. Genome Sequencing — Human Genome, IndiGen, Genome India Project (UPSC Science & Tech)
13. HTBt Cotton — Bt Cotton, Herbicide Tolerance, GEAC, SDN Gene Editing (UPSC Science & Tech)
14. Biotechnology in Agriculture (UPSC Science & Tech)
15. National Biotechnology Development Strategy (UPSC Science & Tech)
16. Types of DNA: Nuclear, Mitochondrial, mRNA, miRNA, Barcoding and Junk DNA
17. mRNA Vaccines Explained: Mechanism, Nobel 2023 and India’s GEMKOVAC
18. Epigenetics: How Lifestyle and Environment Switch Your Genes On and Off
19. Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) India: Vaccines, Schedule and Mission Indradhanush
20. FOXP3 Gene and Regulatory T Cells (Tregs): Peripheral Tolerance, Autoimmunity and the 2025 Nobel
21. Stem Cells: Types, Sources, Therapies and India’s Regulatory Framework
22. Biosimilars Explained: Reference Biologics, CDSCO Approval Pathway, and India’s Generics-to-Biologics Shift
23. Xenotransplantation: Pig-to-Human Organs, CRISPR-Edited Donors, and the Ethics of Cross-Species Transplant
24. Gene Therapy vs Gene Editing: CRISPR, ZFNs, TALENs, and India’s NexCAR19 Breakthrough
25. SDN-1, SDN-2, SDN-3 Explained: India’s Genome Editing Classification and the Non-GM Exemption
26. Comparison of Vaccine Types: Live Attenuated, Inactivated, mRNA, and the Modern Toolkit
27. Bio-Computers and Biological Computers: How DNA, Proteins, and Organoids Are Becoming the Next Computing Substrate
28. Nanomedicine and Targeted Drug Delivery: How Nanoparticles Carry Drugs Straight to Disease

Free to download. The volume is refreshed as chapters are added or updated, so a later download may carry more than this one.