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
Read MoreAccording 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
Read MoreAlchemists 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreIn 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&
Read MoreMoheb 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
Read MoreYoung 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
Read MoreECP 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreGNOBB is pleased to open the application call for Abdur Rahman Memorial Fellowship. Bangladeshi students who are GNOBB members, and pursuing MS/ MSc degree with research projects for partial fulfillment of their Read More
The 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