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Study identifies hundreds of genes that influence timing of puberty and alter risk of several cancers

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[:el] The largest genomic analysis of puberty timing in men and women conducted to date has identified 389 genetic signals associated with puberty timing, four times the number that were previously known. The study, published in Nature Genetics and led by researchers from the Medical...
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Prestigious honor for the Greek specialist in motion of the robots

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[:el] Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Athena Lecturer Award. Kavraki, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and professor of bioengineering, was recognized for inventing randomized motion-planning...
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2 Greek scientists among the 100 most influential medicine makers for 2017

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[:el] The Medicine Maker magazine presented The Power List 2017 featuring the Top 100 most influential people in the world of drug development and manufacture. 2 Greek scientists are among the 100 most influential medicine makers for 2017. The nominations are in and after considerable...
Achievements

Researches the emotional processes during sleep

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[:el] Lampros Perogamvros is researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of Geneva. Dr.Perogamvros was part of a major research that confirmed that dreaming does not just happen in the REM phase but can also take place in non-rapid eye movement (NREM)...
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Specialised in the treatment of brain and spinal cord tumors

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[:el] Konstantinos Gousias is the Head of Lab for Neurosurgical Sciences at the University Hospital Bergmannsheil in Bochum and Senior Consultant at the Neurosurgical Dept. University Hospital of Bochum. He is a specialist in the treatment of brain and spinal cord tumors. He was born in...
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Great distinction for Greek astrophysicist

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[:el] Vicky Kalogera, a Northwestern University astrophysicist who played a key role in the historic discovery of gravitational waves — confirming a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity and launching a new field in astronomy — has been named the 16th recipient of the...
Famous Greeks

He has developed expertise in all fields of genomics

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[:el] Ioannis Ragoussis is Head of Genome Sciences, Associate Professor in Human Genetics McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre and Head of Genomic Research at Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford. His main interest is on developing NGS based approaches to disease...
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5 Greeks new members in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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[:el] The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 228 new members; 40 of them are from 19 countries. Among them there are 5 distinguished Greek researchers. One of them lives in Greece. The Academy’s membership of 4,900 Fellows and 600 Foreign...

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