Moheb Costandi, the science correspondent reports an interesting piece of news entitled, “Citizen microbiome” in the February issue  [vo.31(2)] of Nature Biotechnology. This biotech start-up company  has made it possible for common citizen to have their microbiome analyzed at an unbelievably low cost of only $69. This has been possible following  the

Young  GNOBB members desirous of applying for Ph.D./M.Sc. scholarships  or financial assistance may find the following  two websites: http://scholarship-positions.com and  https://ales-ssl.ales.ualberta.ca/gradpositions  helpful. One of the recent postings in scholarship-positions.com is about a research position in genetics at the Intern

ECP or Earth Champions Program is the signature environmental youth leadership program of Bangladesh Youth Environment Initiative (BYEI). The program is implemented with the support from the U.S. State Department and U.S. Embassy in Dhaka. The Award Giving Ceremony at EMK Centre on February 2 was held to mark the completion of the Earth Champions Program 2011. The ECP began with the

In an  article  entitled, “Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA,”  published online 23rdJanuary issue of Nature,  Nick Goldman and six of his associates affiliated to European Bioinformatics Institute, UK  and Agilent Technologies, Genomics– LSSU, USA hav

In an article entitled, “Nuclear genome transfer in human oocytes eliminates mitochondrial DNA variants,” published on 31st January 2013 issue of Nature (493:634–639), the lead author Daniel Paull with thirteen other associates affiliated to six research groups have announced the success of a new technique to transfer the nucleus of one human eg

In an article entitled, “SIRT3 Reverses Aging-Associated Degeneration” published online on 31st January, 2013 in the journal Cell Reports (DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2013.01.005), Katharine Brown and eight other associates from the University of California, Berkeley report of a major advance in  understanding  the molecular mechanisms behind aging while providin

With a good deal of pleasure, GNOBB members would like to congratulate heartily Professor Maqsudul Alam and his team of 28 scientists spanning over the globe for reporting the Draft genome sequence  of natural rubber, Hevea brasiliensis. They have reported their results inthe most recent issue of  BMC Genomics, 2013, 14:75. H. brasiliensis  is the

Again this is not strictly a biotechnology related posting. This is meant to keep the members informed that it is very heartening to know that the younger generation of our country is very conscious about our environment and they are working hard to create better Bangladesh. The posting is about the ‘Closing and Award Giving Ceremony of the Earth Champions Program (ECP) 2011 a

The article, entitled, “Islam and Science: The Road to renewal” published on January 26th issue of The Economist is not strictly related to biotechnology and yet I thought that GNOBB members may like to read it with a good deal of interest as it addresses some fundamental issues confronting the Muslim countries. However, the situation is not as dismal as it may appe

 In the most recent issue of  Cell Reports, Yue Wu and  seven other associates at the Dept. of Biological Sciences, Brock University  Ontario, Canada have described salicylic acid (SA) as an essential hormone in plant immunity. Little is hitherto known about the receptor of this essential hormone. The authors have  demonstrated that NPR1 (Natr