New Delhi, May 26 -- Widely regarded as one of the greatest modern scientists, geneticist and Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse spoke to HT about India's research landscape, impact of budget cuts on the future of research, and his work that led to him winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001. Edited excerpts: What I work on is cells. We're all made of billions of cells. I work on the process called the cell cycle by which a cell reproduces itself from one to two. That requires a series of events: Events that particularly lead to the doubling of the DNA and the segregation/separation into two newly divided cells. What controls that overall process, what goes through all those events in the right order, and the impact that led to...