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...Friday, an exciting contest against upstart Yale (5-9, 2-0 Ivy) turned into a devastating 85-83 overtime loss for the Crimson (9-6, 3-1), who had pummeled the Elis last year at Lavietes Pavilion...
...also created something of a microarray gold rush. Several firms--from pioneering Affymetrix to the upstart Incyte Genomics, based in Palo Alto, Calif.--help pharmaceutical companies identify drug targets found exclusively in diseased cells. Others, like Phase-1 Molecular Toxicology of Santa Fe, N.M., sell chips that test how chemicals affect gene expression, allowing pharmaceutical firms to quickly reject candidate drugs too toxic to be worth pursuing...
Harvard performed well across the board at the meet, in which the upstart program faced the fourth, sixth and eighth-ranked teams in the country in Iowa State, Oklahoma and Nebraska, respectively. Although the Crimson fell to all three opponents, Harvard picked up several substantial individual victories and lost close matches to several ranked opponents...
...Relative upstart LETICIA WALKER has yet to garner any attention or chart position with her recent R.-and-B. release. Perhaps a catchier title next time...
Such spurts of energy will not carry Harvard to an Ivy League title, however, as conference upstart Cornell already boasts a 5-2 record in non-Ivy games...