In an article entitled, “Identification of a previously undescribed divergent virus from the Flaviviridae family in an outbreak of equine serum hepatitis,” published in March 18, 2013, issue of PNAS (www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1219217110), the lead author Sanjay Chandriani with seven other associates from two research groups have identified a previo
Read MoreIn an article entitled, “A novel grass hybrid to reduce flood generation in temperate regions,” published in Scientific Reports on Friday, the 25th April, Christopher (Kit) J. A. Macleod and eleven of his associates affiliated to six well-known UK Biology institutes have reported the results of their intensive research of a hybrid
Read MoreA conference on Metabolic Signaling & Disease: From Cell to Organism will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on August 13 – 17, 2013. Abstract Deadline: May 31, 2013. The Conference which begins on Tuesday evening, August 13 and ends at noon on Saturday, August 17, 2013.
Read MoreA seminar on “Mucosal immunity in the respiratory tract: Control of mycobacterial infections” was held on 20th April 2013 at Kamaluddin Ahmed Gallery, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka. The speaker of the talk was Prof. Carmen Fernandez, an immunologist from Stockholm University, Sweden. She talked about the properties of the
Read MoreIn an article entitled, “The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome,” published in April 17, 2013, issue of Nature(doi:10.1038/nature12111), the lead author Kerstin Howe with one hundred and seventy two other associates from fifteen research groups sequenced the zebra fish reference genome and demonstrated that 70 per
Read MoreA group of 24 researchers affiliated to UT Southwestern Medical Center and 16 other institutions including one each from the UK and the Netherlands have identified a peptide showing a therapeutic potential against neurological disorder, infectious disease and cancer. This paper was published 14 February 2013 in Nature ( 494: 201–206).
Read MoreOn April 5, ’13, a piece of news was published in the GNOBB website that a 2-member team from Bangladesh represented by Dr. Zeba I. Seraj and Mr Mohammed Solaiman Haider would attend an OECD– (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. on Biosafety) organized meeting of the 27th Working Group. The theme of the meeting was: Harmo
Read MoreFor quite sometime there has been an urgent need of a Bengali Search Engine. A news item has appeared today in some leading local Dailies, namely, PROTHOM ALO that financed by the Grameen Phone, the senior research students under the guidance of teachers at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology (SUST
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Read MoreGNOBB always feels very happy when there is any publication by its member. It is in this context that we like to offer our heartiest congratulations to a GNOBB member, Dr. M. Nurul Islam at the Department of Botany, Dhaka University for being one of the ten co-authors in an article entitled, “Identification and expression of stressosomal proteins in Mycobacte
Read MoreGNOBB 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
GNOBB would like to express its heartiest congratulations to Dr. Hemayet Ullah for his recent publication on identification of functional inhibitor compounds of scaffold protein RACK1 that could inhibit the Herpe Read More
Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd - a Leading pharmaceutical industry of the country started Samson H Chowdhury Memorial Award to recognize two young scientists of the country in each alternate year since 2013 for their Read More