Dear members One of the most dynamic GNOBB members, Prof. Dr. Ahmed  A. Azad  and his close associates  would like to apply in the near future for an ICGEB grant in order to organize an international symposium and workshop on “Building R&D capacity in the developing world for the discovery and development of new medicines from the regi

Dhaka April 2, 2014. In  the April issue of Theoretical and Applied Genetics(Vol. 127(4):969-980), Z. Niu and nine other authors have published an article entitled,  “the   Development and characterization of wheat lines carrying stem rust resistance gene Sr43 derived from Thinopyrum ponticum.”  They have s

Dhaka 31st March, 14. GNOBB feel extremely delighted to  announce that one of its most active members, Professor Kamal U. Chowdhury  at  Caflin University, USA  is the co-inventor of the US. Patent  # 8,669,082.  The title of the recently patented  invention is, “Single vessel production of butanol from biomass using engineered ther

Dhaka, 30th March. In the 27th March issue of Nature (vol 507:402) Kristian Stevens at the University of California in Davis and his team sequenced and assembled the genome of the loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). The team used the tissue from a single pine seed. This Pinus species native to the southeastern United States has a genome with 23 billion base pairs, more than

There are two write-ups on :  First artificially synthesized yeast chromosome: A revolutionary combination of computation and biology and the second one is titled, “Total Synthesis of a Functional Designer Eukaryotic Chromosome.  The first one has been composed by Samad, Research Associate, Samsad Razzaque at the Plant Biotech lab, DU and the second by the Gnobb Offi

A group of students at Rutgers University–Camden under the guidance of their Assistant Professor, Simeon Kotchoni discovered a new gene, called GIGANTUS (abbreviated to GTS) in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. This gene – a member of the protein family- determines cell shapes in plants, controls seed germination, growth and biomass accumulation i

In an article entitled, “Climate change could result in decreasing yields of staple food crops in most parts of the world from the 2030s onwards” has been published in the 20th March issue of Nature, 507:27. In this article  Andrew Challinor at the University of Leeds, UK, and his team have compared the results of more than 1,700 simulations&nbs

Dhaka 24, ’14.  In an article titled, “How proteins find their DNA target, ” published in the 20th March issue of Nature (vol. 507:277),  Zhe Liu and his associates at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia, looked at transcription factors made up of proteins that bind to specific genes to regulate thei

In an article entitled, “Lignin extraction from biomass with protic ionic liquids,” published March, ’14  issue of  Green Chem., (16, 1114-1119), Wesley A. Henderson and four of his associates affiliated to  Ionic Liquids & Electrolytes for Energy Technologies (ILEET) Laboratory, Department of Chemical &

Dear Colleagues. I have much pleasure in providing two important attachments of which one is the proceedings of the recently held (March 1-3, 2014) 7th International Plant Tissue Culture Conference.  and the other gives a detailed account of the existing laboratories in the Universities and Research institutions.