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Greek scientist Menelas (Mene) Pangalos is the head of research and development at pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca which, together with Oxford university, developed a vaccine for Covid-19 with efficacy rates of up to 90%. The coronavirus vaccine has comfortably exceeded regulatory...

A research team led by Greek physicist and professor Eleftherios Goulielmakis has created the first photograph of electrons in crystals, thanks to a powerful new microscope. Dubbed the "Picoscope," this new device allowed scientists from both Germany and China to...

A Greek astronomer based in the UK announced on Wednesday that his team has discovered an exoplanet capable of supporting Earth-like life. Angelos Tsiaras of University College London's Centre for Space Exochemistry Data  announced the exciting new find, which involves...

Greek scientist Dr. Antonis Antoniou, a professor in the field of cancer risk prediction and a lead researcher at the University of Cambridge, is gaining ground in the battle against breast cancer. He is currently leading a research group which...

Osteoarthritis is a painful and degenerative disease and to date, there is no disease-modifying treatment available. However, thanks to a Greek native, Professor Eleftheria Zeggini originally from Volos, there has been a promising breakthrough in treatment - the first of...

  Despoina Petousi, a young Greek scientist based in Germany who works on devices which enable high-speed internet, recently won the prestigious “Bertha Benz Prize” for 2018 for her groundbreaking research. The prize is aimed specifically at young female doctorate-level engineers who...

Greek researchers at the U.K.'s Wellcome Sanger Institute have discovered that a component in eye drops has also shown promise for the treatment of an aggressive form of blood cancer. Scientists have found that the compound, which targets an essential cancer...

A new radiation belt of energetic protons between Saturn and its rings was discovered by a team of researchers led by Greek scientist Elias Roussos, a planetary scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen,...

A Greek scientist leading a group of researchers from the Karolinska Insitutet in Sweden has made a new discovery about the biological mechanism underlying aggressive behavior. In a study of mice, Stefanos Stagkourakis and his team have identified a group...

Pioneering work by a Greek scientist on the nervous systems of mammals has seen him chosen by fellow researchers to join a prestigious British organization. Vassilis Pachnis has been elected a fellow of the U.K.'s Royal Society, a body made...

Greek scientists found an unexpected new drug target for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that could open new avenues to develop effective treatments against the potentially lethal disease. (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer that affects people of all ages, often...

According to a new study by University of Cambridge researchers; led by Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis, daydreams are the brain’s way of letting you get on with the job. The scientists have found tantalising evidence that the so-called default mode...

A new, faster and safer way of diagnosing the Ebola virus has been developed by a Greek academic from Northumbria University in the UK. Research led and carried out by Dr Sterghios Moschos at Northumbria means that patients with Ebola-like...

Researchers have pinpointed 83 genetic variants that could affect the height of a person and their findings have been published in "Nature" magazine. Part of the research team included five Greeks from Genetics Professor Panos Deloukas of Queen Mary University...

A British scientific team, led by a Greek scientist, found that a hormone called kisspeptin can enhance limbic brain activity specifically in response to sexual and couple-bonding stimuli. Furthermore, kisspeptin’s enhancement of limbic brain structures also correlates with psychometric measures...