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...with skin cells taken from diabetic patients at Columbia University. The resulting embryo will generate stem cells that Melton's group will extract and hopefully coax into becoming pancreatic islet cells. These could then be injected into the patient to generate the insulin that they lack. If Melton can perfect the technique, it will ultimately allow patients to create their own, customized treatments from their own stem cells...
Harvard finished the regular season with a 7-3 record, losing to the Bantams, 8-1, in the fifth match of the season and to Princeton, 5-4, in the regular-season finale. Trinity went on to a 19-0 season overall, the team’s eighth straight perfect year...
...faster. When the third-ranked Harvard women’s squash team stunned top-ranked Yale, 5-4, on the Bulldogs’ home courts on Feb. 22, the Crimson earned both a joyous ride home and its first Ivy League championship since 2003. Harvard finished with a perfect 6-0 league record. The Crimson went on to take third at the Howe Cup national tournament, as the Bulldogs exacted revenge with a 6-3 win in the semifinals. Still, the team was able to reclaim the Ivy crown, its 15th overall...
...four seasons, Anderson became the winningest player in Harvard women’s tennis history. She graduates with a record of 192-59 in both doubles and singles, surpassing the 185-67 mark of Kathy Vigna ’87. Harvard also went a perfect 28-0 against Ivy opponents during her four-year tenure and qualified for the NCAA tournament each season, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen on two occasions. —GABRIEL M. VELEZ
...presidency was getting to meet and to know people I had long admired. John Kenneth Galbraith fit squarely into that camp.” Many affectionately recalled Galbraith’s idiosyncrasies, such as his unapologetic ego. “I’m old, sick, weak, and intellectually perfect,” his son J. Alan Galbraith ’63 remembered him saying in response to a question about his health shortly before his death. George S. McGovern, a former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, described Galbraith’s division of “egotistical people?...