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That's a milestone in diabetes treatment. Type I diabetes patients are locked in a constant struggle to maintain their body's insulin levels. Since their beta cells no longer produce the hormone on their own, patients must supply it themselves with multiple injections throughout the day and night, or using an insulin pump that dispenses insulin automatically through a permanent tube under the skin. Voltarelli's stem cell strategy provides a life-changing alternative that would take the burden off the patient and put it back where it belongs, on the beta cells...
...Game 1 against the Bulldogs (10-16, 5-7 Ivy), Harvard clawed its way back to a 4-4 tie before junior first baseman Chris Rouches slammed a three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth to give the Crimson a 7-4 lead that it would maintain for the remainder of the seven-inning game...
...highest the University has seen in over two decades. With payments already projected to overshoot the desired five-percent mark, additional strategic spending will only push spending farther from the target. University spokesman John D. Longbrake wrote in an e-mailed statement that the decision to maintain the strategic payout program was made “in recognition of the importance of making continuing progress in directing resources to shared University priorities.” Financial aid at the College, for example, has been a strategic priority in the past. And the amount spent on aid next year is expected...
...process whereby animals are removed from the idea of meat, should underscore the similar process whereby females are packaged as objects for the male gaze. Without the allure of attractive, naked female bodies, such a project may garner less shock-and-awe publicity. Yet, if vegan activists wish to maintain the consistency of their liberal agenda, they must eschew trading the exploitation of one vulnerable group for the exploitation of another...
...Neon Bible” tracks tempt audiences into forgiving the album’s thematic and lyrical heavy-handedness. But their stage personae are similarly overwrought, and songs such as “Surf City Eastern Block” (which has Butler assuming an alter ego) maintain a distance between listeners and the band. During a stadium-show performance of “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out),” several of the group’s many members line up at the front of the stage to rock out. The moment calls to mind Bruce Springsteen...