The third congress of Young Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (YoungBB) was held on Friday, the 23rd March, 2012 at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. The theme of the Congress was, “Business Career and option”. The event was hosted by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Department of the University along with YounggBB organizers. The spontaneous pa

    The members of Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists offer their heartiest congratulations to Dr Firdausi Qadri, Director Vaccine Sciences at the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) on her outstanding achievement in being rewarded Christophe Mérieux Prize. As a Bangladeshi we feel extremely proud and happy

Nobel Laureate H. G. Khorana Dr. H. Gobind Khorana, the Nobel Laureate died of natural causes in Concord, Massachusetts last month on November 9 at the age of 89. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. For the first time he and his team succeeded in synthesizing a synthetic gene consisting of 77 nitrogenous

A recent paper published in the March 6, ’12 issue of Current Biology by Christin et al. at the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Brown University, USA and seven other authors have adduced strong evidence of Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT) in eukaryotes. The researchers studied the ancestry of the two genes encoding enzymes, namely, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylas

  1st October,2011, Dhaka. As announced earlier, the launching ceremony of the much awaited book, entitled,”Bogshogatir Mulkatha O Gene Prokaushal” was lauched this afternoon, the Ist of October at 3 p.m. in the Hall of the Center of Excellence Building, Dhaka University. Professor AAM Arefin Siddique, the VC DU. was the Chief Guest. Special guests were

The third congress of Young Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (YoungBB) was held on Friday, the 23rd March, 2012 at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. The theme of the Congress was, “Business Career and option”. The event was hosted by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Department of the University along with YounggBB organizers. The spontaneous pa

The First Nobel Laureate in Biology to Get the Unique Award from the Subcontinent Passes Away Dr. H. Gobind Khorana, the Nobel Laureate died of natural causes in Concord, Massachusetts last month on November 9 at the age of 89. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. For the first time he and his team succee