In an article entitled, ‘Creating a False Memory in the Hippocampus’ published in July 26, 2013, issue of Science (Vol. 341 no. 6144 pp. 387-391 ), the lead author Steve Ramirez with seven other associates affiliated to RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory & Howard Hughes Medical Instit
Read MoreA major breakthrough in N-fixing bacteria came following the discovery that a specific strain of N-fixing bacteria in sugarcane has the ability to colonize intracellularly all major crops. The discovery is reported by the world renowned plant scientist, Professor E. C. Cocking at the Nottingham University, Director for Crop Nitrogen Fixation. Prof. Edward Cocking. Nott
Read MoreMr. Ashraful Alam, an expatriate Bangladeshi now living in Dallan, China. has provided the following piece of good news that the Jatropha plants that are growing in the model farm established by the Green Gold platinum Ltd in Chittagong are producing seeds. The harvesting process will be completed by the 1st week of August.  
Read MoreIn an article entitled, ‘The role of Bh4 in parallel evolution of hull color in domesticated and weedy rice’ published in July 17, 2013, issue of Journal of Evolutionary Biology (DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12171), the lead author C C Vigueira with two other associates affiliated to the Department of Biology, Washington University, have examined DNA sequence variation by using
Read MoreIn an article entitled, “Photoreceptor precursors derived from three-dimensional embryonic stem cell cultures integrate and mature within adult degenerate retina” published online in 21st July, 2013, issue of Nature Biotechnology, Anai Gonzalez-Cordero, and 14 associates affiliated to three Departments, Institute of Child Health, University College London, Lond
Read MoreIn an article entitled, ‘Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes up to 2-5 Mb reaching that of Parasitic Eukayotes” published in 19th July, 2013 issue of Science, Chantal Abergel and 12 associates affiliated to two institutions at France and one at Sweden determined the upper limit of the viral world, both in terms of parti
Read MoreProfessor Zeba I. Seraj, at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka has received the prestigious Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research(PEER) science grant funded by USAID and NSF. The project title of the grant is “Validation of salt tolerance determinants in rice (Oryza sativa L. indica) landrace Horkuch and its segregat
Read MoreThe call for membership for Global Young Acadeny is open. The deadline for the submission of application is Sept 29, 2013. GNOBB hope that talented young Bangladeshi Scientists will apply for membership in due time. GNOBB also take this opportunity to heartily congratulate Dr Abdullah SB Tariq for being elected as a member of the GYA Executive Committee 2013-14 by obtainin
Read MoreResearch Associate Samsad Razzaque at the plant Biotech Lab at DU has summarized four recently published articles on stromules. Thinking GNOBB readers will find it interesting to read all of them, the summaries of all the four are given here in the form of an attachment.
Read MoreGNOBB member, Dr. Md. Nurul Islam at the Dept of Botany, Dhaka University recently attended a course on, “Bioinformatics: Computer methods in molecular and system biology” held at the HQ of ICGEB, Trieste, Italy. On being requested by GNOBB Coordinator, Dr. NI has outlined the course as reproduced below. This course started with a brief discussion of biological and bioin
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