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Scientists grow miniature stomachs from stem cells

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Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, among them the Greek researcher Yana Zavros, have used human stem cells to create for the first time functional, 3-D stomach tissue, little miniature versions of the organ in its earliest stages of development.The breakthrough is important because it will...
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Breakthrough for the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

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Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions have discovered a sign of the early development of pancreatic cancer, an upsurge in certain amino acids that occurs before the disease is diagnosed and symptoms appear. Among the research team is a greek...
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Pioneer researcher on dementia and Alzheimer’s

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Professor Constantine Lyketsos holds the Elizabeth Plank Althouse headquarters at Johns Hopkins University in the US and is the Director of the Personalized Medicine Center for Alzheimer’s in Johns Hopkins. The world-renowned specialist in the care and treatment of Alzheimer’s (AL) patients, and related kinds...
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Three Greeks participated in research that reveals new genes linked to height

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Researchers discovered new genes that influence height. The largest genome-wide association study to date, involving more than 300 institutions and more than 250,000 subjects, roughly doubles the number of known gene regions influencing height to more than 400. The study, from the international Genetic Investigation...
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Top researcher for diabetes

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Sofianos Andrikopoulos is the former President of the Australian Diabetes Society and head of the Islet Biology Research Group at the University of Melbourne Department of Medicine (Austin Health). He investigates the genetic susceptibility of islet dysfunction using animal models of diabetes. This research has...
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One of the top neonatologists in Canada

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Apostolos Papageorgiou is the Chief of Pediatrics and Neonatology at the Jewish General Hospital, a level III perinatal centre full professor of pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University. Dr. Papageorgiou was born in Volos and following his primary and secondary education, he relocated to...
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Greek researcher receives price for a test that can boost IVF success by half

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Researchers from Oxford University are developing a new way to test a woman’s egg for chromosome abnormalities that avoids the need to manipulate and biopsy the egg itself. The research may also shed light on the crucial role played by certain genes in the development...
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Discovered diagnostic test for childhood tuberculosis

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[:el][:el] Myrsini Kaforou is a Research Assistant in Bioinformatics and a PhD candidate at the Department of Genomics of Common Disease at the School of Public Health. She received an MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology from Imperial College London in 2010 after graduating...

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