The Director General Islamic Academy of Sciences (IAS) has requested its fellows to circulate the following notice issued by PEER (The Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research) for distribution among the researchers in their respective country. PEER is a program sponsored by The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to meet the world&rs
Read MoreThe 12th International Symposium of Biosafety on GMO concluded successfully at St. Louis, Missouri. As already announced Bangladesh was represented at the Symposium by Prof. M. Imdadul Hoque Country Coordinator SABP, Prof. Zeba Seraj and Dr. Chowdhury Member Director Crops, BARC. A brief account of the conference is presented in the attached ISBGMO.
Read MoreIn the September 21 issue of Science, Jocelin Kaiser reports that a good deal of interest was generated in the late 1970s that regular uptake of a low dose of aspirin prevents the occurrence of intestinal tumors. However in the next 40 years or so, the enthusiasm to block colon cancer with aspirin declined. Again within the last two years a series of
Read MoreThe reply the GNOBB coordinator received from Dr. Maqsudul Alam is reproduced below. Hope GnOBB readers will enjoy the contents of the letter. “We are very excited to handle the Snow White* issue. The metabolic reconstruction pathway is giving us an edge to address the pathogenic issue and host-pathogen interaction. The good thing that we do have both genomes at our hand, so
Read MoreIn the most recent issue (Sept. 19) BMC Genomics 2012, 13:493) Maqsudul Alam and 14 of his associates mostly at BJRI published an article entitled, “Tools to kill: Genome of one of the most destructive plant pathogenic fungi Macrophomina phaseolina unraveled the base sequence of Prof. Dr. Maqsudul Alam this extremely harmful pathogen affecting
Read MoreThe most common type of lung cancer (squamous cell lung cancer) causes more death than breast, colorectal or prostate cancer each year. But squamous cell carcinoma has no treatments available that target the specific genetic alterations which drive this form of cancer. Scientists have succeeded to identify many potential therapeutic targets based on a large number and variety of DNA
Read MoreDr. Manjurul Karim a member of the Global Young Academy has requested the GNOBB Coordinator to post this piece news in its website. Since there is no conflicting interest I am attaching the GYA’s call for new membership. Please click to access the Call for application, 2012, GYA_ApplicationForm_2012, and August issue Internal Newsletter.
Read MoreThe 12th ISBGMO will be held Sept. 17-20, ’12 at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri. The Center was established with a view to improving the Human Condition through Plant Science. The Symposium will have the following 13 sections: New approaches in genetic engineering, Genetically engineered animals and insects, Biotech and climatic change, Biotech f
Read MoreThe 12th ISBGMO was held successfully Sept. 17-20, ’12 at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri. The Center was established with a view to improving the Human Condition through Plant Science. The Symposium organized the following 13 sections: New approaches in genetic engineering, Genetically engineered animals and insects, Biotech and c
Read MoreIt is with a good deal pleasure GNOBB inform the members that in the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) adjoining the National Institute of Biotechnology (NIB) six highly sensitive machines have been installed. Recently Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of the country in a simple ceremony presided over by the State Minister Yeafesh Osman inaugurated Tk 200 crores worth of
Read MoreThe 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
Dr. Haseena Khan, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has been awarded the Independence award 2019 by the Honorable Prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the award giving ceremony at Bangabandhu Read More