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Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

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[:el] John D. Joannopoulos is the director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at MIT. The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is a team of MIT, Army and industry partners working together to discover and field technologies that dramatically advance...
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Greek researcher in the team that discovered new treatment for kidney stones

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[:el] Researchers in USA, among them a Greek scientist, have found evidence that a natural fruit extract is capable of dissolving calcium oxalate crystals, the most common component of human kidney stones. This finding could lead to the first advance in the treatment of calcium...
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Greek researcher participates in the team that discovered new biofuel technique

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[:el] The cost and environmental impact of producing liquid biofuels and biochemicals as alternatives to petroleum-based products could be significantly reduced, thanks to a new metabolic engineering technique. Liquid biofuels are increasingly used around the world, either as a direct “drop-in” replacement for gasoline, or as...
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Pioneer in Chemical Biology

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[:el] Dr. Alexandros Makriyannis is the George D. Behrakis Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Director of the Center for Drug Discovery. He is also Professor of both Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Prior to these appointments, he maintained a highly successful research...
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Pioneering research in nanosciences and nanoengineering

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[:el] Kyriakos Komvopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB and a Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is also the founder and director of the Surface Mechanics and Tribology Laboratory (1989), which in 2008 was split...
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Reducing serious side effects in injectable medicine

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[:el] Paschalis Alexandridis is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, New York. He belongs in a research group that has managed to develop a new technique in drug-making that removes excess additives from drugs, something that could reduce the odds...
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Greek researcher creates system to control robots with the brain

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[:el] A Greek researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain. A controller wears a skull cap outfitted with 128 electrodes wired to a computer. The device records electrical brain activity. If the controller moves a...

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