Medicine

[:el] Dr. Roy Vagelos, 88, the former chairman of Merck & Co., and his wife, Diana, are donating $250 million to the Columbia’s Medical School. $150 million of which will fund an endowment that the school projects will ultimately enable it to underwrite its student financial...

3 Greeks behind the discovery of a novel, groundbreaking function of leukaemia cells

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A study has found an unexpected new drug target for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) that could open new avenues to develop effective treatments against this potentially lethal disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Gurdon Institute and their collaborators show that inhibiting the METTL3...

Focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms leading to neurodegenerative disorders

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[:el] Magdalini Polymenidou is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich. Her research is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms leading to neurodegenerative disorders, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD). Originally trained as a...

Greek scientist uncovers the mechanism behind heart failure & mortality in sepsis

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[:el] Of the nearly one million people in the United States who are affected by sepsis each year, almost one-fifth die. Cardiovascular complications account for approximately 80 percent of those deaths. The heart muscle, weakened by systemic inflammation, is unable to generate the energy it...

A Greek researcher participates in a new major obesity survey

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[:el] Clinicians are being warned not to ignore the increased cardiovascular health risks of those who are classed as either ‘healthy obese’ or deemed to be ‘normal weight’ but have metabolic abnormalities such as diabetes. Academics at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Applied Health...

Scientists develop blood test that spots tumor-derived DNA in people with early-stage cancers

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[:el] Johns Hopkins scientists, among them Dr Nickolas Papadopoulos, have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The combined “liquid biopsy” identified the markers in the blood of 221 patients with the early-stage disease. Their results, published...

His team discovered the “brain viagra”

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[:el] Alexander Comninos is a consultant in endocrinology, diabetes and general internal medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. In addition, he continues in research and education as an honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London. He led a research team that found that...

He created artificial bile ducts

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[:el] Fotios Sampaziotis is an MRC-Sparks clinical research fellow in hepatology at the Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge and at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. The Greek researcher with his team created artificial bile ducts that could be used in the...

Exploring the hormonal determinants of adipose tissue function

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[:el]Konstantinos Manolopoulos is an Endocrinologist and Clinician Scientist in Endocrinology & Metabolism at the Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, with a research interest in human in vivo metabolic physiology. His clinical interests range from PCOS to complex endocrine obesity. He is...

A Greek researcher associates vitamin C with the treatment of blood cancers

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