Dhaka 8th March, 2014. The souvenir of the seventh international TC and Biotech Conference has given a detailed account of the TC and Biotech activities carried out in both public and private universities as well as in various research Institutions in the country. Please click the attached document to view this account. The Coordinator will be happy to correct
Read MoreDhaka March 6, ’14. In an article entitled, “Gemini virus Vectors Deliver Reagents for Plant Genome Engineering,” published online followed by its publication in the January, ‘14 issue of the Plant Cell (vol.26, 1-2), the authors report of many novel tools for carrying out genome engineering work. It
Read MoreGNOBB owes a good deal to Professor Dr. Rakha Hari Sarker, Dhaka University, the driving force behind the International Meet for preparing a comprehensive report on the just concluded Seventh International Plant Tissue Culture Conference. The detailed report is given below: Any inquiry may be directed to him at rhsarker2000@yahoo.co.uk. The coordi
Read MoreDhaka, March 3, ’14. According to a news itempublished in the February issue of Crop Biotech, the researchers affiliated to a multi-institutional team from the University of Illinois claim to have evolved sugarcane varieties that can grow outside its geographic range showing enhanced photosynthetic rate by 30 percent turning into an oil-pr
Read MoreDhaka 2nd March, ’14. As already announced, the Seventh Triennial International Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Conference was held 1-3 March, 2014. The theme of the conference is: Biotechnology and Biosafety for Human Welfare. The inauguration of the conference will take place in the NababNowab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhavan, Dhaka Unive
Read MoreIn an article entitled, “Stem cells make muscles stronger, published online in the 20th February issue of Nature (506: 268-269), the author Bradley Olwin and his associates at the University of Colorado, Boulder, demonstrated that the protein called p38 prevents stem cells in old muscles from renewing. When the authors took muscle stem cells from
Read MoreDhaka 21st Feb., ’14. We are delighted to inform the members and well-wishers of GNOBB that Ahmad Kabirat Rajshahi University along with his two colleagues published online a review paper titled, Zinc-deficiency resistance and biofortification in plants,” in the J. Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. The senior author has himself s
Read MoreDhaka, 12 Feb., ’14. In an article titled, “Re-sequencing Data Indicate a Modest Effect of Domestication on Diversity in Barley: A Cultigen With Multiple Origins,” published in the current issue of Journal of Heredity (vol.105: 253-264), the lead author Peter I. Morrell and three of his associates at the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Read MoreIn an article titled, “Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition,” published inNature (506: 8-55) on its online edition of 22nd January, ’14 the lead author Robert Bagchi and his seven associates affiliated with well-known European and UK laboratories reported that the processes that maintain the dive
Read MoreDhaka, 10th Feb.,’14. In an article titled, “Antidiabetic activity of a triterpenoid saponin isolated from Momordica cymbalaria Fenzl” of the family Cucurbitaceae, published in the February, ‘14 issue of the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, (Vol. 52, , pp. 46-52), Raju B. Konen and two of his associates report that they h
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
Dr. Haseena Khan, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has been awarded the Independence award 2019 by the Honorable Prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the award giving ceremony at Bangabandhu Read More