27th November, ’14.   The Nepal Biotechnology Association organized a two-day National Conference on Biotechnology along with its Annual General Meeting on November 22-23, 2014 in Kathmandu. The theme of the conference was Plant Biotechnology for Economic Development. The main objective of the conference is to apply biotechnology for rapid development of agricultural crop

27th November, ’14. GNOBB always feel exceedingly happy when any of its members publishes his/her research results in a peer-reviewed paper journal with a good impact factor. We are pleased to report that one of its members, Ahmad H. Kabir along with three of his associates at Rajshahi University has published a paper entitled, ‘Mechanisms associated with differenti

Dhaka 27tth November, ’14.  On behalf of GNOBB and on my own behalf  we congratulate Dr. Firdausi Qadri heartily and felicitate her warmly  on her being appointed as one of the members in the Panel of the United Nations  to assess the scope and functions of its proposed new ‘Technology Bank’.  According to a statement by UN Secretary G

Dhaka 25, ’14. In a short article by Helen Thomson, published on the 19 November issue of Nature the authors have shown that in the absence of good bacteria in the gut, some taxa of virus take their place in order to fight the disease leading to the recovery of the patient from said illness. The news is exciting because so long the notion was that viruses cause dise

November 16, ’14. Professor Ahmed A. Azad a popular name in the GNOBB Circle has requested me to post the following. This is about the Feasibility of Establishing a Research-led Drug Discovery and Development Network in Bangladesh based on the indigenous Biota. If you want to read the entire proposal please click here. Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am writing to seek

Dhaka 4th October, ’14. On behalf of GNOBB and me, I heartily welcome Dr. Akhter Hossain  as a member of GNOBB. We sincerely believe that his valuable contributions will enrich the  website. We do hope that Dr. Hossain  may find it possible to participate on the 10th Anniversary celebration to be held on the 9th of January 2015.

Professor Ahmed A. Azad – a very popular name in the GNOBB circle has published an interesting article entitled, “Let’s get our heads together,” in the 22nd October issue of the Dhaka Tribune. Please read the first few paragraphs and if you are interested in the whole article, click the  word  more GNOBB will very much appreciate if the

30th October, ’14. Professor Haseena Khan (in the photograph second from left in the middle row), Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dhaka University, attended the recently concluded FAOBMB (The Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Council meeting as a delegate of the Bangladesh Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biol

In an article entitled, “Oldest-known human genome sequenced,”  published  by Ewen Callaway on the 22nd October issue of Nature, the results of DNA sequencing in a group of modern humans that roamed across Asia about 45,000 years were reported.” According to this report the bone contained well-preserved DNA, and they sequenced its genome to the

Dhaka the 24th October, 2014. Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (MPS I) is a genetic diseases resulting from insufficiency of a lysosomal enzyme, α-L-iduronidase (IDUA). This enzyme plays an important role in the breakdown of glycoseaminoglycan (GAG).  The absence or reduced activity of this enzyme leads to accumulation of heparan sulfate and dermatan sulfate in different tiss