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

In a recent article entitled, “Black mamba venom peptides target acid-sensing ion channels to abolish pain” published online in Nature  on October 3, 2012(Nature 490,552–555, doi:10.1038/nature11494) Sylvie Diochot and her associates  report of   isolating  a new class of peptide from the extremely poisonous African

In  an article, “In vitro flowering and seed formation in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.)”  published in the October  issue, 2012 of In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology,  the authors, RH Sarker, Subrata Das and MI Hoque  at Botany Dept., DU have described a novel technique by which they succeeded in obtaining via

In a PNAS article, “Efficient targeted gene disruption in Xenopus embryos using engineered transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs)”  published on 24th October, ’12, Ignor B. Dawid at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD and nine  associates affiliated to various universities of Hong Kong, have described an ap

In a review article entitled, “Attitude and purchasing decisions regarding genetically modified foods based on gender and education” published in vol. 12 of the Int. J. of Biotechnology pp.50 – 65, Amir Heiman and three of his associates working in the different departments of  Hebrew University including one  at the Department of Agricultural a

In a recent article entitled, “Identification of genomic regions involved in resistance against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from wild Brassica oleracea” published on 25th October in Theoretical and Applied Genetics,  Jiaqin Mei and ten associates  (majority affiliated to College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest Unive

In an article entitled, “Comparison of the genetic determinism of two key phenological traits, flowering and maturity dates, in three Prunus species: peach, apricot and sweet cherry” published online 25 July in Heredity,  E Dirlewanger and his eleven associates affiliated to multiple Universities in France, Italy and Spain studied the p

A recent publication in Nature settled a long-standing scientific argument about the evolution of insects. These findings also gave an insight look in the formation of complex brain structure over 520 million years ago. All these started when scientists found a 520-million-year-old external skeleton of Fuxianhuia protensa, an extinct type of  A fossil arthropo