WSU scientist is helping establish standardized best practices and making them available for cannabis growers, especially those cultivating large crops in greenhouses.
WSU microbiologist John Peters co-authored a paper that has won the prestigious Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
WSU scientist is part of a $4 million effort to develop a better way to produce taxol, a chemotherapy drug that was discovered in the bark of Pacific Yew trees.
Welcome Back to the Future With an impish grin, Mike Kahn led a group of visitors into an old greenhouse on the Washington State University campus in Pullman. Kahn is a scientist in WSU’s Institute of Biological Chemistry, the home of a group of researchers probing the secrets of plant life to help ensure the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Unlocking the genetic and biochemical secrets of plants used for medicinal purposes could be easier in the future, thanks to new online databases funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences through the American Recovery and Re-investment Act. The three-year projects were funded as part of a $10 million initiative from […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Norman G. Lewis, director of Washington State University’s Institute of Biological Chemistry, will play a role in the multi-million-dollar bioenergy initiative recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy. DOE last week announced it will invest up to $375 million in three new Bioenergy Research centers as part of President Bush’s initiative […]