PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The next time you're digging in your garden, marveling at the sweet smell of Mother Earth, you may want to think of a team of Brown University chemists who recently determined how the warm, slightly metallic smell of fresh soil is produced.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Tomatoes are cropping up in Rutgers University's backyard as part of ongoing agricultural research project. There are eight different off-campus research stations conducting experiments to determine the best way to produce a variety of crops, ranging from vegetables to trees to small fruits.
SEATTLE - The back story of the new cervical-cancer vaccine includes, among its many twists: Warts, Italian nuns, a virus old as humanity, a German scientist who shared DNA samples even with those who'd spurned him, numerous naysayers and red herrings, thousands of University of Washington student volunteers, a mended friendship - and a Peace Corps returnee who launched her pivotal career in sexually transmitted diseases (STD) through a chance encounter at a shopping mall.
Buoyed by recent genetic breakthroughs, researchers at Northwestern University and across the country say they have hopes of achieving a feat long thought to be impossible: enabling people to replace damaged body parts or even regrow missing limbs. Like salamanders and other lower species, humans possess genes that direct the body to make new arms and legs after an injury.
