GNOBB like to convey its heartiest congratulations to Dr. Asraful Alam for being one of the authors in three recent including  two online publications. The details are as follows. His article entitled, “Exploring environment-friendly biofuel option” was published on the 9th February issue of “The Daily Star”. Suo-Lian Guo,Xin-Qing Zhao,Ying

GNOBB member and ex GEB, DU student Ms. Sumayia Farah Khan, Assistant Professor  at the Department of Microbiology & Biotechnology, Jagannath University, Dr. Munwara Sultana at the Dept. of Microbiology, DU and Ms. Syeda Sharmin Sultana at the Dept. of Botany, DU are three delegates selected from Bangladesh shortly to attend  the JSPS-sponsored HOPE Meeting in  Ja

GNOBB like to express their heartiest congratulations to Ms Rokeya Begum at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka for successfully completing her Ph.D. GNOBB also congratulate her supervisor, Prof. Zeba I. Seraj and co-supervisor Dr. Jesmin at the Department of Genetic Engineering, DU. In BD to carry out research leading to Ph.D. is extremely d

In an article entitled, “Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese swine farms,” published on February 11, 2013, issue of PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.1222743110), the lead author Yong-Guan Zhu with seven other associates affiliated to five research groups have concluded that unmonitored antibiotic use on animal farms could prompt the vast emergence and relea

Only this afternoon all the articles in the issue No. 2 of vol 22 of  The Journal of Plant Tissue Culture  & Biotech have been uploaded on the Association’s website: www.baptcb.org. Click the link to view the articles online. This issue contains 10 articles including one short communication. One of the two articles on biotechnology  is on transformation

With a good deal of pain and pathos GNOBB announce the untimely death of Professor Dr. M. A. Khaleque, Chairman of the the Department of Botany, Rajshahi University. He did his Ph.D. under the guidance of Late Professor Ali Md. Yunus at the Department of Botany, RU. One of his publications with his colleagues is entitled, “Comparison Genotype-Environment Interaction Models and

According to a piece of news published in the  dailytexanonline.com starting from fall the current year,  free online courses will be provided by UT professors at Austin. The courses include:  Introduction to Globalization, Bench to Bedside:  Introduction to Drug Development and the Commercialization Process and Energy Technology & Policy. UT has&nb

Alchemists are known to possess power to turn base metals into noble metals like gold. In a recent study a team led by Nathan Magarvey at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, reported a type of bacteria that can produce gold particles when exposed to gold solution. The results of this interesting study has been published as a brief communication in Advanced Online publication s

In an article entitled, “Epigenetic control of female puberty,” published on 27th January 2013 issue of Nature Neuroscience (doi:10.1038/nn.3319), the lead author Alejandro Lomniczi with nine other associates affiliated to four research groups have presented evidence that a silencing epigenetic mechanism operating in the hypothalamus plays a significant role in timing th

In an article entitled, “Polar protein transport between apical and basal cells during tobacco early embryogenesis”,  published in the  February 2013 issue of Plant Cell Rep. (32(2):285-91), the lead author Li S. along with three associates at the Hybrid Rice Lab., Wuhan University, China report in tobacco of unidirectional trafficking from&