GNOBB has the pleasure of announcing that one of its most active members Ms. Sabrina M. Elias who looks after GNOBB website (GNOBB.org) has been selected for the Monsanto’s beachell-borlaug-international-scholars-program.aspx  to do her Ph.D.   It is under a joint fellowship program and the universities involved are DU, University of Nebraska

The following Cancer search engine is available.  The search engine is centered around answering actual questions (Q&A).  The knowledge base of this search engine has now reached the 26K mark.  The search engine  can be  reached by clicking on the link below. The above information was obtained through the courtesy of ctSearch West 3Rd. New York

In an article entitled, “A Major Facilitator Super-family Transporter Plays a Dual Role in Polar Auxin Transport and Drought Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis,” published in March 21, 2013, issue of The Plant Cell (doi: http:/​/​dx.​doi.​org/​10.​1105/​tpc.​113.​110353), the lead author Estelle Remy with seven other associates from fou

An Industry Academia Linkage Event was held at the Daily Star office on the 22nd March, 2013, organized by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMBDU) and the Bizcube initiative of the Management Company, Better Stories. The objective of the meeting was to identify opportunities for BMBDU in developing laboratory-successful protocols into possible commercial ve

 An International Conference on Biotechnology being organized by the Committee  of Action for Research, Extension and Services will be held in Dhaka on 25-26 May at Westin Hotel, Gulshan 2, Dhaka.    The theme of the conference is: Application of Biotechnology in addressing  the development needs of Bangladesh. Pl. contact dire

Today’s posting will be different from the ones which usually feature the GNOBB website. The write-up is based on a news item published on the 16th of March in প্রথম আলো (Prothom-Alo). The news is about an almost illiterate farmer, Yousuf Molla, a resident in Barendra village. Right from his childhood Molla became interested in conserving rice varieties ma

In an article entitled, “Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior,” published on March 11, 2013, issue of PNAS (doi:10.1073/pnas.1218772110), the lead author Michal Kosinski with two other associates affiliated to the University of Cambridge, UK & the Microsoft Research, UK have demonstrated that a variety of pers

In an article entitled, “Atomic-resolution monitoring of protein maturation in live human cells by NMR,” published on March 3, 2013 issue of Nature Chemical Biology (dOI:10.1038/nCHeMBIO.1202), the lead author Lucia Banci with six other associates affiliated to the  University of Florence, Italy & the University of Oxford, UK have described a new

On the request of INNSPUB, GNOBB has the pleasure of posting the following information for GNOBB members. We hope that GNOBB members will derive benefit in the academic field through the service offered by this academic Publisher. Coordinator. International Network for Natural Sciences (INNSPUB), a leading academic publisher in Bangladesh, has been publishing scientific contents fo

The October issue vol 1 #10 of Biolife– a monthly organ of ACI (formerly Knows as ICI) has just been published. Although it’s primarily meant for promoting the company’s interest, some articles published there may be of interest to GNOBB readers. The first article, entitled “Beneficial Virus for Poultry Industry” contains useful information such as