GNOBB owes to Mr. Manjoor Rahim, Director CARES for the minutes of the seminar  (organized jointly by BCSIR and CARES). Inadvertently, the name of Professor Zeba  Seraj was attributed instead. GNOBB offers an unqualified apology for the mistake. Dhaka the 20th October, 2013. A Seminar with the theme “Impact of R&D on National Development&rd

Dhaka 20th October, 2013.  This year, three researchers who played a prominent role in developing genetically modified crops, namely, Mary-Dell Chilton of Syngenta, Robert T. Fraley of Monsanto and Marc Van Montagu of University of Ghent in Belgium were awarded the World Food Prize on 17thOctober at the Iowa Capitol in the USA. Their findings were focused on

Dhaka 15th October, 2013. GNOBB offer their heartiest felicitations to BINA (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture) scientists for taking Bangladesh a step forward towards mitigating  its food deficit. It has been a great achievement of the part of BINA agricultural scientists to release BINA Dhan-7 a few years back. BINA Dhan-7  is an early va

Dear Members, Some members have suggested that I write a suitable poem commemorating the great event of the holyEid–ul-Adha. Below is a poem composed on the occasion. May Allah reward you all. ASIslan Today is Eid-ul-Adha: “Eid Mubarak” We celebrate the holy Eid-ul-Adha every year. But do we follow the message of prophet Ibrahim? &ld

GNOBB would like to wish all its members and well wishers a heartiest Eid greetings. May this holy great occasion bring joys, love and prosperity to all of you.

Dhaka 9th October, ‘13. It has indeed been a good piece of news that an Uzbek woman microbiologist, Dilfuza Egamberdieva – a pioneer and a lead scientist at the National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent has successfully isolated salt tolerant bacterial strains that live in salt-degraded soil. It’s a species of Pseudomonas, namely, P. extremori

Dhaka the 9th Oct., ’13. In an article, “Cyclin A regulates kinetochore microtubules to promote faithful chromosome segregation,” published on the 3rd October issue of Nature (vol.502:110-113), Lilian Kabeche & Duane A. Compton affiliated to Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire have shown that k–MT attachments in prometaphase

Dhaka 9th October, ’13.  An interesting Seminar on, “Impact of R& D on National Development,”  jointly organized by CARES and BCSIR was held 8th Oct. 2013 in the IFST auditorium, BCSIR.  The keynote speaker at the Seminar was the renowned molecular biophysicist, Professor  Dr. Samir K. Brahmachari, DG, CSIR India and Secretary, Dep

Dhaka  Oct. 9, 2013. The 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules in a cargo system that delivers them to the right place at the right time. The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced the winners: James E. Rothman, 62, of Yale University; Randy W. S

Dhaka  October 7, ’13. Jointly organized by CARES and BCSIR, a seminar on, “Impact of R&D on Nation Development,” will be held 8th October  in the IFST Auditorium, BCSIR. The renowned molecular biophysicist, Professor  Dr. Samir K. Brahmachari, DG, CSIR India and Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research will