The Time magazine wellness blog, in an item called “Juice Remedy Expands Reach,” today noted a new study by Terri Camesano, professor of chemical engineering at WPI, that made the surprising finding that cranberry juice, long known for its ability to ward off urinary tract infections, also seems able to block the ability of a [...]
August 25, 2010
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WPI Yeast Research Rises on Faculty 1000
A recent paper by Reeta Prusty Rao, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at WPI, earned a “recommended” read from Faculty of 1000 Biology, an international scientific literature review service that promotes “the most important advances in biology” as judged by more than 2,300 researchers around the globe. Prusty Rao’s discovery that yeast produce a [...]
August 4, 2010
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Understanding How Plants Grow the Right Way
Combining the advanced tools of molecular genetics and biophysics, a WPI research team has discovered the role of an important gene in proper plant growth. The findings are reported in the paper “Myosin XI is Essential for Tip Growth in Physcomitrella patens” published on-line, ahead of print, by the journal Plant Cell. The paper was [...]
July 29, 2010
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Visit WPI’s Research Publication Online
The online version of WPI’s research publication, WPI Research, our annual roundup of research news and feature stories, recently received a new look. In this new online edition, you will find features about research focused on information security, fire protection engineering, data processing and data mining, and wind energy, as well as a look at how [...]
June 30, 2010
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WPI’s Brattin Performs Annual Dickens Wreath Ceremony
The great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens died 140 years ago, on June 9, 1870. He was felled by a stroke at his country house, Gads Hill Place, where he had been working on his last, ultimately unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Each year the anniversary of Dickens’s passing is noted with a brief [...]
September 2, 2010
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