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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...
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The European Research Council supports with grants 6 Greek researchers

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[:el] Six Greek researchers are among the 406 European researchers that will be supported by the European Research Council (ERC) with grants to continue their research. The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of its Starting Grants to 406 early-career researchers throughout Europe. The funding,...
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Greek physicist captured ultrafast snapshots of excitons for the first time

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[:el] Using ultrafast flashes of laser and x-ray radiation, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany) led by a Greek researcher took snapshots of the briefest electron motion inside a solid material to date. The electron motion lasted only 750 billionths...
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A new cloaking technology has been developed with the participation of a Greek researcher

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[:el] How do we make an object invisible? Researchers from TU Wien (Vienna), together with colleagues from Greece and the USA, have now developed a new idea for a cloaking technology. A completely opaque material is irradiated from above with a specific wave pattern –...
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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...
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New research for mobile phone use during pregnancy

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[:el] Mobile phone use during pregnancy is unlikely to have any adverse effects on child neurodevelopment, according to new research led by a Greek researcher and published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. These findings provide further evidence that exposure to radio frequency...
Achievements

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...
Famous Greeks

Internationally renowned radio astronomer

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[:el] Dr. Tasso Tzioumis is an internationally renowned radio astronomer, researcher at the CSIRO’s department of Australia Telescope National Facility and the Australian Government representative at the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva. He is the initiator and organizer of the important International Radio Astronomy Conference...
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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...

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