Dhaka, March 5, 2015. GNOBB will be interested to know about wrangling retrotransposons. The 1st March 2015 issue of  The Scientist contains an article  of the above  title. The three authors of this article are: Michael Van Meter, Andrei Seluanov, and Vera Gorbunova. Wrangling retrotransposons are mobile genetic elements that can wreak havoc on the gen

February, 26, 2015. GNOBB always feels exceedingly elated to communicate any outstanding achievement of  any of its members. It now reports of a coveted assignment of one of its dynamic members, Professor Dr. M. Tofazzal Islam at the  Department of Biotechnology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur. He will

Dear GNOBB members, During the current “Get-a-member” campaign, some  members pointed out a technical issue of the absence of a membership form in the web page. It was a technical glitch and we tried to fix it. It took a little while to solve the problem. We sincerely apologize for that. We would like to let you know that the problem is fixed. You can see a rede

February 22, 2015. It’s with a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction that GNOBB announces that one of its dynamic members, Mr Asraful Alam  has been awarded Ph. D.  by Dalian University of Technology, China and thereafter appointed as a postdoctoral researcher in Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Science, China.  The results of h

February 15, 2015. The February issue of South Asia Biosfety Program has just been published. Among many articles published there, the one on the recently held on the International Conference in Biotechbnology in Health and Agriculture held in Dhaka in the Senate deserves special mention as it covered in detail all the salient points of the Conference. The interested readers will su

Dear members, Prior to the commencement of the International Conference, the Founder members decided to launch a vigorous campaign  and appeal to the Bangladeshi Biotech Community to enlist themselves as members of this web-based organization which has now nearly 400  members.  You can check the actual number by browsing the  front page of

February 5,  2015. The South Asian University (SAU) is a SAARC initiative to cater to the demand for quality higher education & research among others, in the South Asian region in all areas of human knowledge but tailor made to address region specific and relevant issues. In order to facilitate greater interaction among Biotechnologists and Life scientists from these eig

28th January, 2015,  According to a report published from Beijing  on the 28 January 2015, a record 181.5 million hectares of biotech crops were grown globally, an increase of more than six million hectares from 2013, according to a report released today by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA). With the addition of Ba

26th January, 2915, With a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief and pathos, GNOBB announces the death of Professor Dr. Satyajit Kumar Bhadra this afternoon, the 26th of January. He was a Professor in the Department of Botany, Chittagong University.  In his death Bangladesh has lost one of its dedicated and dynamic scientists in the field of plant genetics. Professor Bhadra did

25th January, ’15, GNOBB is delighted to report on the achievements of Mr.Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid at the Department of Computer Science, BUET,  now doing Ph.D.  in Bioinformatics at University of Tezas at  Austin  He is the coauthor of two recent papers  published in the 12th December issue of Science, vol. 346 no. 6215. Both papers