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According to a recent study released by McKinsey Global Institute roughly one-fifth of the global workforce will be impacted by the adoption of AI and automation, with the most significant impact in developed nations. The Future of Jobs Report 2018 refers that 50% of companies believe that their num...

Charis Galanakis is using green chemistry to reuse byproducts in the food industry!

One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally – making the reduction of agro-industrial byproducts an urgent issue. Over the past five years, Greek chemist Charis Galanakis has focused...

It was a great movement on Earth Day! Thousands of scientists, academics and citizens, around the world from New Zealand to North Korea and from US to Australia joined the global March for Science sending their messages against the rise of a “post-truth” era and its threat to the academic world. Peo...

Swiss drugmaker Roche confirmed on Monday October 30th the withdrawal from the «positive list» of drugs reimbursed in Greece of cobimetinib, used to treat melanoma in adults in combination with vemurafenib, after the government imposed a mandatory 25% discount on the reimbursement price of innovativ...

“The first time I felt a little awkward because I had never seen a breast with mastectomy and it was not an easy case. This woman had undergone many surgeries in her effort to make her breast look normal. We draw branches of flowers on it. One of them covered the missing nipple. The trust that we sh...