Dhaka December 11, 2013. In an article entitled, ‘3D printing of microscopic bacterial communities’ published in November 12, 2013 issue of PNAS (vol. 110. no. 46; 18380-18385), the lead author Jodi L. Connell with three other associates from the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, USA report that they have developed a 3D microscop

Dhaka, the 8th Dec., ’13. The Department of Science and Technology, Government of India announces the award of Jawaharlal Nehru Science Fellowships to scientists of all nationals to carry out cutting edge research in any of the Centers of Excellence in India. For details click here. The value of each fellowship is $100,000 for a period of 12

Dec. 3, 2013. In an article titled, “Comparison between Agrobacterium-mediated and Direct Gene Transfer Using the Gene Gun,” published in  the November issue of Plant Cell Reports (vol. 940 (3-16), Caixia Gao and Klaus K. Nielsen have described efficient protocols for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation for grasses. Like dicotyledons they have

29th Nov., 2013. In an article titled, “Genomic insights into salt adaptation in a desert poplar,”  published in the November issue of Nature Communications, the two lead authors, Jun Wang and Liu Jianquan along with 41 associates report the genome sequence of the desert poplar, Populus euphratica. This species exhibits a

Nov. 28, 2013. As the Coordinator I feel so happy that within less than three hours, GNOBB has been able to provide a very important piece of information to Dr. Tanvir Rahman  who desperately needed to know how he could transship material which requires refrigeration. Mr AKM Faizur Rahman, Managing Director  of M/S RIFA Enterprise has replied that his compan

Dear GNOBB members, One of our dynamic members, Professor Tanvir Rahman at BAU inquired as to whether there is  any agency in Bangladesh through which biological samples could be sent abroad using cold pack or dry ice? He contacted DHL, UPS and FedEx, but without any luck – they do not provide this kind of se

28th November, ’13. Frederick Sanger,  one of the most celebrated scientists for discovering the genome sequencing technique  passed away  the 20th of November at the age of 95.  He twice won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He was one of just four individuals to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes, the other three being  Marie Curie, Linus Pauli

24th Nov., 2013.  In an article titled, “Generation, functional annotation and comparative analysis of black spruce (Picea mariana) ESTs: an important conifer genomic resource,” published in BMC genomics,  Ishminder K Mann, Jill L Wegrzynand Om P Rajora  have reported the first high quality EST resource for black spruce and identified 493 no

Dhaka the 20th Nov., ’13. The 11th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics takes place 20-23 November in New Delhi. The number of paper presentations is 62 in nine concurrent sessions, while the total number of posters in eight sections is 208. The concurrent sessions are: a) abiotic stress, b) architecture and development, c) comparative and ev

Dhaka, Nov. 19, 2013, In an article titled, “The formation and function of plant cuticles,” published in the September issue of Plant Physiology,” Trevor H. Yeats and Jocelyn K.C. Rose at the Department of Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca discussed at the outset of the article about the considerable progress that has been made in bringing together