Dhaka 10th June, 2014. It is with a good deal of pleasure, GNOBB bring to the attention of its members and well-wishers of the following two publications of Professor Zeba I. Seraj and her associates at the Plant Biotechnology Laboratory, Dhaka University: 1. Genotypic and phenotypic relatedness of a farmer-discovered variant with high-yielding rice growing in th
Read MoreIn the January, 2014 issue of the Indian Journal of biotechnology, Somayaji, Prarthana Doddananjappa, Theertha Prasad Byrappa and Shivanna Manchanahally transformed tomato genotype, Arka Vikas. Transformation resulted in the enhancement of its lycopene content. Using 488 bp ySAMdc gene under E8 fruit promoter through Agrobacterium tumefaciens, transformation, whi
Read MoreOver the past decade, the sequencing of human genome initiated a new era revolutionizing the biomedical research. But a map of human proteome with direct measurements of proteins and peptides does not exist yet. Interestingly, two individual groups of scientists have recently published the draft map of the human Proteome in the May, 2014 issue of the
Read MoreDhaka 5th June, 2014, In an article entitled, “Production of marker-free transgenicJatropha curcas expressing hybrid Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin Cry1Ab/1Ac for resistance to larvae of tortrix moth (Archips micaceanus)”, published in 3rd May, ’14 issue of Biotechnology for Biofuels 2014, 7:68, Keyu Gu, Hui
Read More4th June, 2014. The three celebrated Institutes, namely, Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facilities for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2) BGI, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China and the International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila 1301, Philippines, re-sequenced a core collec
Read MoreThe three celebrated Institutes, namely, Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facilities for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2) BGI, Bei Shan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China and 3) the International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila 1301, Philippines, in a combined effort re-seque
Read MoreNational Earth Olympiad 2014 or NEO’14: The first ever Earth and Environmental Science Olympiad in Bangladesh, now in its third year, had its final round on Friday, May 30, 2014 at Independent University Bangladesh. 150 participants who qualified out of 3000 students from the 11 divisional rounds from all over the country, on completion of the respective divisional Green Day T
Read More30th May, 2914. GNOBB feel a good deal of pleasure to announce that Dr. Mohammed Uddin, a Bangladeshi scientist and a GNOBB member is the lead author of the paper titled “Brain-expressed exons under purifying selection are enriched for de novo mutations in autism spectrum disorder”, published online in the May 25, 2014 issue of the prestigi
Read MoreDhaka 26th May, 2014. A graduate student of Professor Dr Tofazzal at the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Department of Biotechnology Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University & Department of Biotechnology Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University Gazipur-1706 has prepared the attached qu
Read MoreGNOBB members will be pleased to know that the Annual Botanical Conference & AGM 2013 will be held on the 31 May, 2014 in the Assembly Hall of Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha(Bengali: ঠেঙ্গামারা মহিলা সবুজ সংঘ) (TMSS), Bogra founded byProf. Dr. Hosne-Ara Begum – an eminent botanist and a well-known social worker of
Read MoreThe deposition of first SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing results of a Bangladeshi patient by Dr. Senjuti Shaha, Dr. Samir Kumar Shaha along with their team from Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) opened a new do Read More
GNOBB wishes all its well wishers and readers a heartiest greetings for Eid-ul-fitr. May this special day brings peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone. Eid Mubarak! Read More
GNOBB would like to express its heartiest congratulations to Dr. Hemayet Ullah for his recent publication on identification of functional inhibitor compounds of scaffold protein RACK1 that could inhibit the Herpe Read More