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Inhibition of the oncogenic kinase AKT, a key protein governing the cell cycle, was found to arrest cancer cell proliferation and triggered their programmed death by apoptosis. The study, published today in Oncogene, represents significant progress in the clinical translation of previous basic scientific discoveries. “Understanding the molecular fe...

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Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano remembers how the grieving mother’s words just kept spilling out. It was at a sentencing for a murder nearly a decade ago, and the woman’s heartbreak was palpable in the courtroom. She spoke, Giordano estimated, for more than an hour as she tried to describe the pain that the loss of her daughter had caused he...

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Villanova guard Donte Divincenzo has been the star of the first half of the NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship. Through 20 minutes, he's come off the bench to score a team-high 18 points, including a 3-of-4 effort from behind the arc. So who is this ultimate sixth man on Villanova's star-studded team? DiVincenzo was a four-star prospect ou...

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Catalano's Restaurant and Lounge was the place to go, long before the hustle and bustle on Harrisburg's Second Street. The Italian-American restaurant and its sister establishment, Angelina's Ristorante, operated in Wormleysburg along the Susquehanna River for three decades. (Check out the video, above, for a look back at the restaurants.) Vince an...

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As Italian-Americans and part of the Italian Studies program at Lafayette, Marissa Bocchiaro ’20 and Adrianna DiMarco ’20 founded the Italian club to bring the richness of Italian culture to campus. Music professor and Italian Studies program coordinator Anthony Cummings is the official faculty adviser for the club. Cummings said that there are a l...

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A mix of Pennsylvania and New Jersey license plates can be found in the parking lot at the new De Lorenzo's Tomato Pies in Yardley, Pa., as both old and new customers make their way to the new location. Despite a quiet opening last month, word spread quickly that the legendary tomato pies that had their beginnings in the 1940s on Trenton's Hudson S...

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St. Anthony Chapel, a Romanesque-style church located in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was founded by Father Suitbert Mollinger, a Belgian-born missionary and priest, in 1880. The son of a wealthy family, Mollinger used his inheritance to build St. Anthony’s as a place of worship that could host his growing collection of t...

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UPDATE: Mural Arts sent Philly Mag the following statement: We’ve updated the language in our survey to say “also known as the Italian Market,” given that different people throughout the city may refer to the area in one way or the other. Our original copy was based on our understanding of “Italian Market” being a popular nickname and not the prope...

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Monday, April 30 | 7 p.m. Carnegie Library Lecture Hall | 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh 15213. The History Center's Italian American Program is proud to be a marketing sponsor of Lidia Matticchio Bastianich's lecture and book signing. Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city turned Yugoslavian under Tito's communist...

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There’s no question that a list of classical music’s greatest hits would include several from Vivaldi. But that list likely would also include works by other composers of the Italian Baroque, including Scarlatti, Albinoni and many others. On Saturday, in Princeton, N.J., and Sunday, in Solebury, Bucks County, early music group La Fiocco will presen...

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