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Now De Vlaminck and Ren, who are both faculty with the Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center, plan to extend their collaboration into exploring fertility and ovulation problems associated with obesity and reproductive aging.

But earlier blood tests that looked for circulating DNA were limited by the fact that all the cells in our system have largely the same genome, De Vlaminck adds.

It was a de Vlaminck painting, “Banlieue de Paris,” that started the Shaheens’ collection when they acquired it from a local gallery in the early 1970s.

Some of her paintings were exhibited in France alongside works by Matisse, Braque and Vlaminck.

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts was bequeathed four pieces, including Maurice de Vlaminck’s colorful Parisian street scene from 1905, Suburban Landscape.