Lauren Sorrentino: My Miscarriage Brought Me and Mike 'Closer Together'

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Banding together. Lauren Sorrentino (née Pesce) and her husband, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino leaned on each other after she suffered a miscarriage. Stars Who Are Honest About Their Fertility Struggles “That definitely brought us closer together,” the New Jersey native, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, July 16, while promoting her sunglass collection with Eleventh Hour. “Mike and I […]

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Potential new cancer treatment a step closer

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QIMR Berghofer researchers have discovered a potential new cancer immunotherapy target that involves switching off a regulatory cell to stop tumors growing and spreading. The study findings have been published today in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Senior researcher and head of QIMR Berghofer’s Cancer Immunoregulation and Immunotherapy Laboratory, Associate Professor Michele Teng, said […]

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Research moves closer to brain-machine interface autonomy

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A University of Houston engineer is reporting in eNeuro that a brain-computer interface, a form of artificial intelligence, can sense when its user is expecting a reward by examining the interactions between single-neuron activities and the information flowing to these neurons, called the local field potential. Professor of biomedical engineering Joe Francis reports his team’s findings allow for the development […]

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Researchers aiming to cure spina bifida get a step closer to their goal

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Researchers on the path to finding a cure for spina bifida have identified specific elements in stem cell secretions as key to protecting neurons and ultimately reducing the lower-limb paralysis associated with the birth defect. Those elements are exosomes—vesicles that transfer molecules from cell to cell—and a small carbohydrate-binding protein known as galectin 1. The team will use the results […]

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