A team of researchers, including some from Worcester Polytechnic Institute found that extracts from leaves of the medicinal herb known as sweet wormwood inhibit the replication of COVID-19 and two of ...

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute research effort that's looking into potential tuberculosis treatments has been given a federal grant of nearly $435,000. The National Institutes of Health grant will ...

Patrick Perry was already sweating through his shirt when he climbed in his tractor Wednesday morning at Spindletop Farm in Lexington. He’d arrived before sunrise, in part to beat the heat, but mostly ...

WASHINGTON – A number of important drugs come from plants, but some medicinal plants are endangered or tricky to grow. For some scientists, finding ways to ensure ready access to these drugs has ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: 1. Fruit trees. Plant a Chinese date tree (Zizyphus jujube). It does fine when planted this time of year. Chinese date is an extremely drought-tolerant tree, ...

Could a 2,000-year-old herbal remedy for fevers be the key to treating coronavirus patients? A Massachusetts researcher says the medicinal herb known as sweet wormwood is showing plenty of potential ...

Twelve years after a breakthrough discovery in his UC Berkeley laboratory, professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling is seeing his dream come true. On April 11, the pharmaceutical company Sanofi ...

Today’s topics are follow-ups on flowers, fizz and flags. To start, turn back to the vaguely unsatisfying answer given several columns ago to the question concerning the origins of the name Algoma, ...

Fermentation-powered brewing has been getting people drunk for thousands of years. Soon, it could be getting them high, too. In research announced on Wednesday by the University of California at ...

Researchers in the United States have shown that extracts of an aromatic herb called Artemisia annua inhibit the replication of severe acute respiratory coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent ...

Ever since Alexander Fleming noticed a clump of blue-green mold destroying a neighboring culture of bacteria in a nearly discarded petri dish, scientists have searched the most unlikely of places for ...