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...research team, led by Dr. Julio Voltarelli of the University of Sao Paulo, is the first to successfully treat type 1 diabetes patients with their own stem cells. The group first reported its initial achievement in 2007, with 15 type 1 diabetes patients who received their own stem cells and no longer needed insulin to control their blood sugar levels. In the new study, a follow-up of their previous work, Voltarelli and his colleagues detailed the same success with an additional eight patients, and also confirmed that in the majority of them, the stem cell transplant...
...highly recruited and very accomplished coming out of high school,” Saretsky said. “He was undefeated his senior year in high school. He showed a ton of potential, and he’s a great competitor.”But Weiler credits his success to his coaches, not his athletic talent.“I was very fortunate to have very good coaches,” Weiler said. “Every coach brings a different aspect of coaching. Right now, I feel like that I’m still growing in strength...
...Harvard students the importance of active participation in what is perhaps the most important problem the world faces today. The current efforts of Harvard’s EAC and of students in the consortium of colleges and youth organizations that comprises MAPS are truly exemplary, but their ultimate success rests on others taking the same initiative to bring change in whatever ways they...
...looking more closely at the tools they have at their disposal - or, at any rate, are conducting more rigorous training to respond to pirate attacks. The crew of Phillips' ship, the Maersk Alabama, for example, indicated that they had trained for precisely this scenario and attributed their success to training that Capt. Phillips had given them before their latest trip. They said they were kept on the ship well after it arrived at port in Mombasa after escaping the pirates, not only because the ship was classified as a crime scene, but also so that the crew could document...
...expand accessibility and profit, but to clamp down on it. Consider Viacom’s legal showdown with YouTube. And has Disney confused itself with DeBeers? The profound shortage of common sense in such moves—given that the fundamental driver of a content creator’s success is the size of its audience—is reflected in the black market’s vibrancy: Not more than half an hour after their original broadcast on the East Coast, most shows are uploaded across the Internet...