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Unlocks secrets about the life of prehestoric animals

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[:el] Eleftheria Palkopoulou is a paleobiologist in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics of the Swedish Museum of Natural History and in the Zoology Department of Stockholm University. She is the leader of an international team that succeeded to decode the full DNA of the woolly...
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Τhe European Research Council funds 5 Greek researchers

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[:el] The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of its prestigious Advanced Grants to 277 senior researchers. Among the 277 researchers there are also 5 Greek scientists. The funding, worth in total €647 million, will enable them to pursue their most promising ideas and...
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Unraveling the causes of Parkinson’s disease

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[:el] Dorothea Pinotsi is a post doc researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biology in Cambridge University. Her research focuses on the development of new techniques that allow us to depict the biological nanostructures in real time, mostly regarding the neurodegeneration of the...
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Develops “smart” materials that transform our everyday life

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[:el] Athanassia Athanassiou is a Senior Researcher, responsible for the Smart Materials Group, in the Nanophysics Department of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa. In September 2014 she became Tenured Scientist. In her lab, she tries to develop “smart” materials that will have a...
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The Greek researcher awarded by Barack Obama

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[:el] President Obama named 105 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Among the honoured recipients...
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Discovered an innovative technique in the fight against breast cancer

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[:el] Christos Sotiriou, MD, PhD is a medical oncologist specialized in breast cancer and actively involved in the treatment of breast cancer patients. He is head of the Functional Genomics & Translational Research Unit at Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium. Dr. Sotiriou’s research focuses on...
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Greek coordinator in the space weather prediction project

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[:el] Weather in space can be quiet or agitated just like weather on Earth. There are winds, clouds, and storms. However, they are very different from those on Earth. In space, winds, clouds, and storms don’t consist of air and water droplets, but of tiny,...
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Greek researcher sheds light in Parkinson’s mechanism in the brain

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[:el] Researchers led by a Greek scientist, may be closer to unraveling the underlying causes of Parkinson’s disease, after identifying the point at which alpha-synuclein – a protein believed to play a key role in the condition – becomes toxic to the brain. First author...
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Good cholesterol can lead to higher risk of heart attack

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[:el]A new research, in which a Greek scientist participated, shows that high levels of good cholesterol can lead to higher risk of heart attack. You can eat healthy and still be exposed to heart disease. The generally accepted medical maxim that elevated HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) is “good”...

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