23rd October, 2013. In an article entitled, “Micropropagation of Stemona tuberosa Lour. — an endangered and rare medicinal plant in the Eastern Ghats of India,” Murthy, K. Sri and associates, affiliated with the Dept of Botany and Biotechnology, Montessori Mahila Kalasala, Vijaywada, India and the Dept of Botany, Srikrishnadevaraya Univ., Ananta
Read MoreIn an article titled, “Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain”, published in Science on 18th October 2013: (Vol. 342), the lead author Maiken Nedergaard and 12 of his associates affiliated to the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Roche
Read MoreDhaka the 21st October, 2013. The GNOBB Management has great pleasure in bringing to the attention of the expatriate members that from today, bone marrow transplantation program has commenced in the tenth floor at the New Building of Dhaka Medical College (DMC) for the treatment of blood cancer. Dr. Bimalangshu Ranjan Dey MD, an expatriate Bangladeshi working in the
Read MoreGNOBB 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
Read MoreDhaka 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
Read MoreDhaka 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
Read MoreDear 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
Read MoreGNOBB 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.
Read MoreDhaka 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
Read MoreDhaka 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
Read MoreGNOBB is pleased to open the application call for Abdur Rahman Memorial Fellowship. Bangladeshi students who are GNOBB members, and pursuing MS/ MSc degree with research projects for partial fulfillment of their Read More
The 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