Most of the farmer popular indica rice varieties are recalcitrant to tissue culture dependent transformation method. In this study, a simple in planta transformation method for indica rice genotype was developed with higher transformation efficiencies than earlier reports. Overnight-soaked mature seeds were infected with Agrobacterium containing salt tolerance-enhancing Pea DNA Heli

Dhaka October 27, ‘17. Hats off to  four Bangladeshi scientists, Dr Shahriar Hossain and Mostafa Kamal Masud from the UOW, and Dr Muhammad JA Shiddiky and Md Nazmul Islam from Griffith University. at the University of Wollongong (UOW) and Griffith University in Australia. They have jointly developed a new class of nanomaterials that can detect cancer earlier in an ineexpe

ড. আহমদ শামসুল ইসলাম ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের উদ্ভিদবিজ্ঞান বিভাগে ‘পিএইচডি’ চালু করেছেন, ‘প্লান্ট টিস্যু কালচার ল্যাবরেটরি’ গড়ে তুলেছেন। &lsqu

Dr. Abul Bashar Mir Md Khademul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, has been selected as The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Young Affiliateship-2017 from the Central and South Asian Region for next 5 years, till 2021. TWAS – The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countrie

Dhaka Sept. 14, 2017. A large number of scientists from Bangladesh participated in the Biosafety conference. Bangladesh delegation comprised  teachers from Universities as well as distinguished scientists from different research institutes. This conference is the premier biosafety meeting in South Asia, and provides an essential forum to hear from leading scientists

The 64th   issue of the online newsletter "BioLife" by ACI Agribusinesses is now available. "BioLife" highlights the new developments and technologies in the agriculture sector along with the various activities of ACI Agribusinesses

September 2, 3017. On belf of GNOBB and on my behalf as the coordinator I wish you all including the well-wishers hearty Eid Mubarak. Let us all take lesson from  the supreme sacrific by Prophet Ibrahim (PBUH) and make our beloved country one of the most prosperous and ideal country of the world. Ameen..

Dhaka, August 30, 2017. The 21st Conference of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS) on, “Science. Technology and Innovation for Global Peace and Prosperity," will be held 8-11 October, 2017 at Konya, Turkey.. The fellows interested to participate in the conference are requested to contact at their earliest convenience, Dr. Moneef Zou;bi,  the Director General

August 27, 2017- GNOBB offer their heartiest congratulations to Dr. Enamul Huq (One of the GNOBB founder members) and his associates at University of Texas at Austin for their recent publication in PNAS. The details are as follows: SPF45-related splicing factor for phytochrome signaling promotes photomorphogenesis by regulating pre-mRNA splicing in Arabidopsis Environmenta

Exhibition Memoire was an interactive story-telling session and exhibition, organised on 25 July 2017 and in celebration of the British Council’s valuable presence in Bangladesh for nearly 70 years. The goal of the event was to visually display the impact created by the British Council through the library, examination services, opportunities of education, our work in arts and