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“If you could find us,“ she asked, “why didn’t they?”Do you have a story to share about the use of unclaimed bodies for research? Dr. Douglas Hampers, the CEO of National Bioskills Laboratories — which had leased Honey’s torso — said he was disturbed to learn his company had received unclaimed bodies. He said his company would ensure that it no longer accepted unclaimed bodies and would adopt policies to make certain future specimens were donated with families’ permission. To curb this ghastly 19th-century practice, states adopted laws giving schools authority to use unclaimed bodies for student training and experiments. Each of the 44 that answered said they don’t use unclaimed bodies — and some condemned doing so.

Persons: Fran Moore, Carl Yenner, “, —, Victor Honey —, ”, Brenda Cloud, didn’t, DePuy, Johnson, Medsystems, Medical Sciences —, Douglas Hampers, Thomas Champney, Tim O’Hare Organizations: NBC, Army, University of North Texas Health Science, Health Science Center, Health Science, NBC News, Health, Dallas, U.S . Army, Johnson, Boston Scientific, University of Arkansas, Medical Sciences, University of North, National Bioskills Laboratories, American Association for Anatomy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Locations: Texas, Dallas, Tarrant, Fort Worth, North Texas, University of North Texas, Dallas County, Tarrant County

By the time Harvey found the posting online, the medical examiner had sent Coleman’s body to the Health Science Center. “‘Did he actually die?’”After Victor Honey’s body arrived at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, the harvesting began. NBC News informed Getinge, the Army and National Bioskills about the center’s regular use of unclaimed bodies and Honey’s family not providing consent. He said his company would ensure that it no longer accepted unclaimed bodies and would adopt policies to make certain future specimens were donated with families’ permission. On a call, the reporter broke the news of how Honey’s body was used.

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☆ Nearly 40 million people could die from antibiotic-resistant superbug infections by 2050, new study estimates
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Antimicrobial resistance happens when pathogens like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to evade the medications used to kill them. A death attributable to antimicrobial resistance was directly caused by it, while a death associated with AMR may have another cause that was exacerbated by the antimicrobial resistance. For this combination – the antibiotic methicillin and the bacteria S. aureus – the number of attributable deaths nearly doubled from 57,200 in 1990 to 130,000 in 2021. The researchers estimated that, in 2050, the number of global deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance could reach 1.9 million, and those associated with antimicrobial resistance could reach 8.2 million. Strathdee saw firsthand the effects that antimicrobial resistance can have on health when her husband nearly died from a superbug infection.

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☆ Syphilis is at its highest levels since the 1950s. Here's how experts are trying to fix that.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Simar Bajaj | Simar Bajaj Is A Marshall Scholar | Award-Winning Journalist Covering Stigmatized Diseases | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +14 min

Soon after, the mother’s syphilis test — given to all women before delivery — came back positive. In 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 200,000 syphilis cases — the highest counts since 1950. Spreading the word about syphilisSome public health departments have launched eye-popping awareness campaigns, trying to raise the alarm among both the public and health care providers. Make syphilis testing convenientBeyond greater awareness, access to testing and treatment needs to be quick, easy and convenient, Chokshi said. But permanently bending the syphilis curve will require scaling these efforts nationally and promoting greater coordination between health care and public health.

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☆ Boeing Starliner capsule is back on Earth while crew will hitch a SpaceX ride home in 2025
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The spacecraft successfully launched and delivered NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station in June. But what seemed like an eight-day jaunt turned into months of questions surrounding Starliner’s ability to return the crew safely to Earth. NASAAfter nearly three months, the Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth without the two test pilots after undocking from the space station Friday night and parachuting into the New Mexico desert early Saturday. Starliner is the first US-made capsule to parachute to a ground landing, rather than splashing into the ocean. It remains to be seen how and when Starliner will be certified to carry astronauts regularly to space.

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☆ Common food dye can make skin transparent in mice, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“But when we put them together, we were able to achieve transparency of the mouse skin.”Once the dye had completely diffused into the skin, the skin became transparent. In mice, the researchers were able to observe blood vessels directly in the surface of the brain through the transparent skin of the skull. Guosong Hong/Stanford UniversityThe transparent areas take on an orangish color, Ou said, similar to that of the food dye. 5 dye, a common food coloring, was used at a low concentration in the study, and its effects were easily undone, according to the researchers. “However, a partially transparent (mouse) will already enable numerous research opportunities to answer questions relating to development, regeneration, as well as aging.”

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☆ Opinion: I’m a vaccine scientist. The devastating impacts of vaccine hesitancy have touched my life too
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Opinion Mohamed Bassyouni | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But when my eldest son was a young child, there was no vaccine for rotavirus. Mohamed Bassyouni Gates MRIIt just so happened that my research back then supported clinical trials evaluating a vaccine candidate for rotavirus. In Saudi Arabia, where we were living at the time, my two younger children received their rotavirus shots as their doctors recommended. And researchers at the National Institutes of Health in the US determined that the vaccine also “substantially reduced hospitalization and deaths in Africa.”The expectation was that many lives would be saved around the globe thanks to the rotavirus vaccine. This could be the first new TB vaccine in 100 years.

Persons: Mohamed Bassyouni, Melinda Gates Organizations: Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute, CNN, rotavirus, National Institutes of Health Locations: Saudi Arabia, Africa, United States, Pakistan

☆ AI startup Cohere cuts staff after $500 million funding round
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Cohere, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-Google AI researchers and backed by Nvidia , cut about 20 roles on Tuesday, CNBC confirmed. Despite the cuts, Cohere is hiring in areas such as customer operations, partnerships, revenue, sales, product design and modeling, according to its website. In June 2023, Cohere raised $270 million at a $2.2 billion valuation, with Salesforce and Oracle participating in the funding round. Many customers include businesses in banking, financial services and insurance, Kon told CNBC in the past. In November, Cohere told CNBC it saw an uptick in customer interest after OpenAI's sudden and temporary ouster of CEO Sam Altman.

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☆ Bye-bye bitcoin, hello AI: Texas miners leave crypto for next new wave
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

watch nowThere are a lot of synergies between the bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure businesses. watch nowBeefing up the gridFor years, Crusoe's work has been virtually synonymous with the bitcoin mining industry. But Crusoe's Lochmiller told CNBC that AI infrastructure has actually been part of the vision since the company's founding six years ago. Back in 2018, Fenn says that the only load that was a good fit for this was bitcoin mining. "That has all changed now, with AI data centers optimized for massive scale energy availability, cost, and greenness.

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☆ A detailed look at children’s brains might show how sex and gender are different, new study says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Jen Christensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Sex and gender are often conflated or equated in everyday conversations, and most American adults believe a person’s gender is determined by sex assigned at birth. But a new study of nearly 5,000 9- and 10-year-olds found that sex and gender map onto largely distinct parts of the brain. The researchers on the new study defined sex as what was assigned to the child at birth. They also hope to see how different cultures affect a person’s gender and their brain development. The study did not look at whether sex or gender were congruent or incongruent in any study participant.

Persons: ”, Elvisha, Dr, Dani S, Bassett, “, ” Bassett, ” Dhamala, —, Sanjay Gupta, Avram Holmes, Holmes, “ It’s, ” Holmes Organizations: CNN, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Zucker Hillside, University of Pennsylvania, Bioengineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Astronomy, Neurology, Psychiatry, Research, London, Conservative, CNN Health, Rutgers University Locations: Glen Oaks , California, United States

☆ Beckham, Guardiola and the Princess of Wales: Welcome to Wimbledon’s Royal Box
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Nick Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

On the upside, you get the best view in the house for the most famous tennis tournament in the world. The Royal Box at Wimbledon is an unending source of fascination for people ostensibly tuning in to watch some top-class sport. Guardiola and Williamson acknowledged the crowd, as is traditional in the Royal Box on middle Saturday. You get drinks on arrival, served on the balcony behind Centre Court, which overlooks some of the smaller courts. The invitation reads: ‘The Chairman and Committee of Management of The Championships request the pleasure of the company of [insert name] & Guest in the Royal Box on [insert date].

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☆ Despite high demand, kidneys donated by Black Americans are more likely to be thrown away. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Ana S. Iltis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Making matters worse, kidneys from Black donors in the U.S. are more likely to be thrown away as a result of a flawed system that erroneously considers all Black donor kidneys as more likely to stop working after a transplant than kidneys from donors of other races. Research on previous transplants shows that some kidneys donated by Black people are more likely to stop working sooner after transplantation than kidneys donated by people from other races. This could explain the data on Black donor kidney failure rate. And since Black kidney recipients are more likely to receive kidneys from Black donors, this approach could perpetuate transplant disparities. One way researchers are working to identify higher risk kidneys is using the APOLLO study, which assesses the impact of key variants on donated kidneys.

Organizations: CNN, Black, American, Research, Americans Locations: U.S, Africa, West, Saharan Africa

☆ My husband and I used a 'Cinderella' rule to limit our kids' screen time. We don't regret it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Estrada, 51, who is a plant-science lecturer at Fresno State and the mother of two teenagers. But when they were in middle school and younger, we had a Cinderella thing: At midnight, all the wifi would disappear. How we locked their devices at midnightLeft to right: Maria Estrada, her kids Pauline and John, and her husband Dexter, after the kids won first place in the plant science category at a science competition. Maria EstradaMy husband, Dexter, used two different apps to lock our kids' devices so they couldn't stay up late texting, watching videos, and playing games. Our kids have both excelledI don't do anything to restrict my kids' screen time anymore.

Persons: —, Maria Estrada, It's, I've, Estrada, Pauline, John, Dexter, John Benedict Estrada, he'd, Pauline Estrada, Maria Estrada Pauline, they've Organizations: Service, Fresno State, Business, YouTube, Microsoft, Safety, University of California Locations: Berkeley

☆ Children with high BMIs should not use obesity medications like WeGovy, US doctors warn
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Julia Naftulin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWith weight-loss drugs like WeGovy and Ozempic dominating many of today's consumer healthcare conversations, there's a mounting concern for a particularly vulnerable group: children. In January 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that healthcare providers offer weight-loss medications, in addition to lifestyle adjustments, to treat obesity in children 12 and older. And in addition, there was limited evidence on weight loss maintenance after medications were discontinued in children," Nicholson said. These injectable drugs have proven successful as weight-loss interventions for adults with obesity, early research shows. Nicholson said clinicians have used lifestyle interventions, like nutrition and exercise plans, to help children with obesity lose weight and reduce risk factors like hypertension, diabetes, and liver disease.

Persons: —, Eli Lilly, Hilary Brueck, Wanda Nicholson, Nicholson, Amanda Staiano, Staino Organizations: Service, Pharmaceutical, Novo Nordisk, Business, American Academy of Pediatrics, US Preventive Services, Force, George Washington University School of Public Health, FDA, Pennington Biomedical Research, of Louisiana State University Locations: Pennington

☆ Fauci to Face Grilling by Republican Committee on Covid Origins
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Benjamin Mueller | Sheryl Gay Stolberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the former government scientist both celebrated and despised for his work on Covid, is set to return to Capitol Hill on Monday for a reunion with some of his fiercest antagonists: members of a Republican-led House panel who accuse him of helping to set off the worst pandemic in a century. Republicans on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have spent 15 months rooting through emails, Slack messages and research proposals for evidence against Dr. Fauci. In half a million pages of documents and more than 100 hours of closed-door testimony, the panel has so far found nothing linking the 83-year-old immunologist to the beginnings of the Covid outbreak in China. But the panel has turned up emails suggesting that Dr. Fauci’s former aides were trying to evade public records laws at the medical research agency he ran for 38 years until his retirement in December 2022. Some of those emails paint Dr. Fauci as being preoccupied with his public image; one April 2021 message from an aide said that while Dr. Fauci “prides himself on being like teflon,” he appeared to be “getting worried about the brown stuff hitting the fan” over questions about research funded by his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Persons: Anthony S, Slack, Fauci, Fauci’s, Fauci “ Organizations: Capitol, Republican, National Institute of Allergy Locations: China

☆ 3 ways to make your next job hunt easier in the age of AI, from a career coach with 25 years experience
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Career coach Shari Santoriello, who has been working in the industry for 25 years, knows it; she sees it all the time. She noted that nobody likes to hear that, but you can make it easier for yourself by creating what some people call a résumé vault or master résumé. Highlight those things that make you distinctive with regard to what the job description is asking for," Santoriello told Business Insider. Related storiesOn average, Santoriello estimates, job seekers have roughly five seconds when a hiring manager looks at their résumé. "When you write your résumé toward the new industry, you want to use the industry specific language," Santoriello said.

Persons: Shari Santoriello, Santoriello, it's, you've, there's, I'm Organizations: Service, Business, Google, LinkedIn

☆ How to make money from medical research and donations
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Sell your blood plasmaBags of blood plasma being examined in a laboratory. During plasma donation, blood is drawn and an automated machine separates the plasma from other blood components, which are returned to the donor. Plasma donation pay varies from site to site, but the average payout is typically around $50 per donation. During the egg donation cycle, patients are injected with fertility drugs so that the ovaries make more mature eggs than normal. For example, here's a list of the most recent paid research studies offered by New York University.

Persons: —, Weill, You'll, what's, Carolina Reid, Stacy Thacker Organizations: Service, Business, Weill Cornell, of California, NASA, US Air Force Reserve, Institutes of Health, US Food and Drug Administration, New York University, NYU, Associated Press, Science Locations: United States, Houston , Texas

☆ Chemical toxin exposure in the womb linked to greater health risks for children ages 6 to 11
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Chemical toxins are everywhere — in our water, food, air and soil. Children born to European mothers exposed to four families of chemicals that disrupt the body’s endocrine (hormone) system had elevated levels of metabolic syndrome at ages 6 to 11. Metabolic syndrome can include obesity, elevated blood pressure, and abnormally high cholesterol and insulin resistance, which is a precursor to type 2 diabetes. Metabolic syndrome is typically associated with adult cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke, but the growing epidemic of childhood obesity has seen symptoms appearing in kids at younger and younger ages. Having metabolic syndrome as a child is highly predictive of chronic disease as an adult, experts say.

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☆ He fell in love with Thailand while traveling in his 20s. Now 40, he's back and has built his dream 'James Bond' luxury villa.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewThe first time Johnny Ward went to Chiang Mai, Thailand, he was 22. Johnny Ward on a scooter in front of his house in Chiang Mai, Thailand. But after traveling the world, Ward realized that Chiang Mai still had his heart. Johnny Ward/onestepforwardWard said he spent 13 million Thai baht building the home and another 3.5 million Thai baht furnishing it, or about $460,000 in total. It would have been difficult for him to have all the things he wanted if he had bought an existing home in Chiang Mai, Ward said.

Persons: —, Johnny Ward, Chiang, Ward, Chiang Mai, James Bond, onestepforward, Jaa, he's, onestepforward Ward, hadn't, I'm, She's, it's Organizations: Service, Business, Homes, James Edition Locations: Chiang Mai, Thailand, Asia, Australia, Miami, Ibiza, Ireland, Homes Thailand, onestepforward

☆ What the results of Wegovy’s longest clinical trial yet show about weight loss, side effects and heart protection
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Meg Tirrell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —New analyses of the longest clinical trial yet of the weight-loss drug Wegovy are shedding light on how quickly it helps people lose weight, how long they sustain that weight loss and how safe the medicine is over four years of use. A previous clinical trial showed even greater average weight loss for Wegovy: about 15% on average over 68 weeks, compared with 2.4% for people who got a placebo. It was sustained for up to four yearsThe results showed that the 10% average weight loss for people using Wegovy was sustained for up to 208 weeks, or four years. Patients stayed on the medicine while they sustained the weight loss. Almost 23% of people on Wegovy lost at least 15% of their body weight, compared with 1.7% on a placebo.

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☆ MDMA therapy could be legalized by summer. Why are so many advocates sounding the alarm?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +52 min

Last summer, thousands of tie-dyed Burners and Patagonia-clad tech founders converged on the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference in Denver. The experience "broke the spell of this trauma, and she was able to rebuild her life," Doblin told The Guardian . The video team's job was to store recordings of every MDMA therapy session performed in the clinical trials. Grof believes in something called an "inner healing intelligence," an innate capacity for self-healing that psychedelic therapy helps unleash. Another time, a patient who had come to an MDMA therapy session later acknowledged they had been under the influence of LSD during treatment.

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☆ For adults, autism diagnosis can unlock a new life
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Matt Villano | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Jesse Grant/Getty ImagesFor some, an adult autism diagnosis is an inflection point — the moment in which a clearer and more fulfilling existence starts anew. Whatever the perspective, an adult autism diagnosis is an identity builder, instantaneously minting new members of the growing autism community. How to get help Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. “This is why a diagnosis can be so important.”An autism diagnosis can be everythingAdults are seeking formal autism diagnoses in record numbers, according to providers and practitioners who specialize in autism. “Getting an autism diagnosis, becoming part of the autism community, has completely recontextualized my life,” said Sellergren, who was diagnosed in 2021 at age 44.

Persons: CNN — John Frizzell, David Hume, ”, Frizzell, Beavis, John Frizzell, Jesse Grant, —, Lindsay Naeder, Michael Chez, Ingrid Boveda, Boveda, ‘, Quinten Harvey, ” Harvey, “, Vanessa Bal, Bal, neurodivergence, Autism, Naeder, Ed Asner, Spencer Harte, Harte, I’m, ” Harte, “ I’m, Bird Sellergren, Sellergren, ” Matt Villano Organizations: CNN, “, US Centers for Disease Control, Autism, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Befrienders, Autism Society, Research, Sutter Institute for Medical Research, Harvey Psychological Services, Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied, Professional, Rutgers, Team, Hollywood Locations: United States, Sacramento , California, Salt Lake City, neurodivergence, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Northern California, whalehead.com

☆ Women have specific exercise and nutritional needs. Dr. Stacy Sims explains
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“If we work with our physiology knowing that women are women and men are men, knowing that women are not small men, then imagine the (health) outcomes,” she said at a 2019 TED talk. Women of all ages should focus on strength training to help reduce risk of dementia, said exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims (not shown). Dr. Stacy Sims said women should prioritize eating more protein to support building muscle, especially as bodies age. But if we have that lean mass from strength training, it really helps calm down that rate of change. Drinking something cold right after exercise helps bring that blood back centrally, reduces metabolites and starts the reparation process.

Persons: Joe Biden, —, Stacy Sims, ”, MoMo, Sims, Darwin, that’s, Alzheimer’s, haven’t, It’s, “, Melanie Radzicki McManus Organizations: CNN’s, CNN, TED, National Institutes of Health, Women’s, US National Institutes of Health Locations: Mount Maunganui , New Zealand

☆ Novartis lifts guidance after first-quarter results beat expectations
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Signage is displayed on the exterior of the Novartis AG Institutes for BioMedical Research building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Tuesday raised its full-year guidance after reporting better-than-expected first-quarter results. In a statement, it said 2024 net sales would likely grow by a high-single to low double-digit percentage with adjusted operating income expected to grow by a low double-digit to mid-teens percentage. It has previously predicted that adjusted operating income would increase by a "high single-digit" percentage with "mid single-digit" sales growth. Quarterly adjusted operating income gained 16% to $4.54 billion, beating an average analyst estimate of about $4.3 billion.

Persons: Bristol Myers, Giovanni Caforio, Joerg Reinhardt, Vas Narasimhan, Sandoz Organizations: Novartis, Institutes, Research, Bristol, Bristol Myers Squibb Locations: Cambridge , Massachusetts, U.S

☆ Breasts take center stage at Venice Biennale exhibition
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —What is one of the earliest and enduring subjects in art and media — as well as one of the most censored? And these are all themes explored broadly in the exhibition “Breasts,” a robust survey on display at the 60th Venice Bienniale. “It’s very intimate, so it’s perfect for international artists to develop a dialogue with each other,” she said in a video call. “Artists keep going back to it.”“It’s been a wonderful moment to contemplate my own relationship with the meaning of breasts,” she added of the show. Scroll to see artworks from the show, which will run through November 24 at the Palazzo Franchetti.

Persons: they’re, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salvador Dalí, Anna Weyant, Chloe Wise, Lakin, Carolina Pasti, “, ”, Bernardino del Signoraccio, Sherman, Jesus, Del, Raphael, Flavio Gianassi, we’ve, Teniqua Crawford, “ It’s, Todd White, Europe Allen Jones, Maggiore Allen Jones, Maggiore Laura Panno, Christopher Bucklow, Tetrarch, Claudia, Schiffer, Christopher Bucklow Giorgio de Chirico, Nudo, Turin Louise Bourgeois Organizations: CNN, Venice Bienniale, Artists, Buchanan Studio, Maggiore Locations: Venice, Europe, Italy

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