Prof. MonjurDr. Md. Manjurul Karim Realizing that the imported probiotics (Probiotics are microorganisms such as bacteria or yeast that are believed to improve health) may not work in Bangladesh environment, Prof. Dr. Karim at the Dept. of Microbiology, Dhaka University embarked on an ambitious project of  collecting and identifying local probiotics flora and test

Since its establishment in 1961, BINA (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture) BINA already developed and released 56 mutant varieties of different crops. Although initially its mandate was to develop varieties using nuclear techniques only (using radiation to generate mutants), now the scope of their objective has been widened to include both conventional and molecul

In an article entitled, “Reversible online control of habitual behavior by optogenetics perturbation of medial prefrontal cortex”, published in November 13, 2012, issue of PNAS 109:46; 18932–18937, the lead author Kyle S. Smith with three other associates from two research groups  (McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Dept of Brain and Cognitive

I feel very happy to share three  exciting dispatches from Mr. Mustak  bin Ayub, who is now on study leave from the Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Dhaka University to pursue his Ph.D. study at Oxford University. He has been writing regularly for AmarDesh weekly. The first dispatch was published on the 31st October, the second and third on the 10th and

In an article entitled, “An ultraviolet-radiation-independent pathway to melanoma carcinogenesis in the red hair/fair skin background”, published on the 15th Nov. 491:449–453, Devarati Mitra and 19 of her associates affiliated mainly to Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, began the

There will be two International conferences of Biochemical and Molecular Biologists towards the end of November, 25-29.  The Congress to be held in Bangkok is being organized by the Federation of Asia and Oceania of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB)  and  the Symposium by the International Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG 10

In an article entitled, “Synchronization of the flowering transition by the tomato TERMINATING FLOWER gene” published online, 11 November 2012, the leader of the team, Zachary B. Lippman and seven of his associates affiliated to CSHL, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Evry, France and the Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israe

In an article entitled, “Immune response  spurs cell switch published on the 8th of November (491:163) issue of Nature based on an article published in October 26 issue of Cell (151, 547–558),  John P. Cooke at Stanford University in California and associates report that controlling cellular immune responses could help researc

In an article published on the 31st October issue of Nature, Brian Owens a science reporter emphasizes on the importance of carrying out cancer research with single cells  in order to observe the type of mutations that occur in individual cells and how such mutations lead to the malignant type of cancerous growth. The results of the research team on cancer c

Professor Haseena Khan has taken over as the new Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dhaka University. She is is a Ph.D in Molecular Biology from  University of Sussex,  England.  She has succeeded Prof. Dr. Dr. K. B. M. Mamun Rashid. She is a well-known research scholar who initiated Jute Genome  Prof. Haseena Khan Project i