Some GNOBB members are keen to read South Asia Biosafety Program (SABP) Newsletter. Here is the link to the latest Newsletter published in September i..e., Volume 10, No. 9.

In an article entitled, ‘Bio-inspired synthesis yields a tricyclic indoline that selectively resensitizes methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to β-lactam antibiotics’ published in September 9, 2013, issue of PNAS  (doi:10.1073/pnas.1310459110), the lead author Jessica D. Podol with four other associates from the Departmen

GNOBB like to congratulate the Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, DU for arranging a seminar in the last week of the current month on Industry-Academia Linkage focusing biotechnology.  Mr, Mahbub Rashid, a staff member at the above Department has prepared a write-up. The report which emphasized on the urgent necessity of building up a firm bridge between

 Salimullah, CSO, Plant Biotechnology, NIB Dhaka, the13th of Sept.,’13. . GNOBB is pleased to inform its members that it played a significant role in the recruitment of two Chief Scientific Officers (CSO) by advertising last year inter alia these vital  posts in two of its major divisions,  J. Alam. CSO, Animal Biotechnology namely,

Co-organized by a) South Asia Biosafety Program; b) Biotech Consortium India Limited and c) Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, a three-day South East Asia Biosafety conference will be held 18-20 September, 2013 in New Delhi. A large contingent of Bangladeshi delegates including three, namely, Professor M. Imdadul Hoque, Prof. Rakha Hari Sarker and Prof. Zeba I Seraj from Dhaka Universi

On behalf of GNOBB we offer our heartiest congratulations and felicitations  to one of the Founder members of GNOBB, Dr. Abidur Rahman  at the Cryobiofrontier  Research Center, Iwate University, Japan and his associates affiliated to Samuel Roberts Foundation, Oklahoma, USA and Reproduction et Developpment des Plantes, Geraland –Lyon Sud, France for their most r

In an article entitled, ‘A reversible gene trap collection empowers haploid genetics in human cells’ published in August 25, 2013, issue of Nature Methods  (DOI:10.1038/nMeth.2609), the lead author Tilmann Bürckstümmer with thirty four other associates from  Austrian biotechnology company Haplogen and the Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)

 In an article entitled, “Whole-genome sequencing reveals untapped genetic potential in Africa’s indigenous cereal crop sorghum,” published in  the 27th August issue of Nature Communications, 24 researchers with David R. Jordan and Jun Wang as principal authors published an article, as indicated above the whole

GNOBB offer their heartiest congratulations to Professor Zeba I. Seraj and her associates at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for developing salt-resistant versions of http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/du-develops-salt-resistant-rice-varieties/ rice varieties–BR11 and BRRI Dhan 28– which are cultivated extensively across the country.  T

The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) breeders developed high zinc rice variety, Brri dhan -62. HarvestPlus, supported this  biofortification project under the Washington-based global agro-science coordinating body Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The newly released outstanding variety which has got approval of  the National