A central government committee has taken action against a Hyderabad institute for carrying out an experiment to create India's first genetically modified (GM) chickens in violation of government rules. When a government panel found the experiment was conducted without proper bio-safety conditions, it ordered the destruction of the GM chickens [...] In all, 263 chicks were hatched for the experiment of which 16 were found positive for the gene protein. Of these, seven died earlier, and the committee ordered the remaining nine - seven males and two females - be destroyed by autoclaving.