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AI-powered, big data research revolutionises understanding of autoimmune disease
New research, which uses semantic web and big data approaches thanks to a connection of patient registries across Europe, and which has just been published in The Lancet Rheumatology, provides evidence for improved diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases.
27 Aug 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Research reveals environmental and disease factors can speed up the brain’s biological age
By integrating advanced brain clocks and deep learning models, researchers at Trinity have uncovered how environmental, socioeconomic, and health conditions can either accelerate or protect against brain aging, offering new directions for personalised health interventions.
26 Aug 2024
Health|Research|Science|Society
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Widespread fragmentation of services, no information, no support for tuberous sclerosis complex
Researchers call on policymakers, decision-makers, and ‘those who hold the purse strings’ to listen to the evidence and take action to enable individuals with TSC to receive the internationally recommended coordinated care they require to live full lives.
23 Aug 2024
Health|Research
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New blood test for Alzheimer’s Disease could change how the disease is detected and diagnosed
Research undertaken in the Institute of Memory & Cognition at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) and published in the Alzheimer's Research and Therapy journal could change the way Alzheimer’s Disease is detected.
22 Aug 2024
Health|Research
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School of Medicine podcast cuts through the noise on health science
The Off-Script’ podcast is an intersection of medicine, science and society and explores deep questions about the health and well-being of Ireland and the world through conversations with a host of Trinity College experts.
22 Aug 2024
Health|Research|Science|Society
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Bioengineers develop hybrid grafts to combat cardiovascular disease
Researchers from AMBER and Trinity, led by Dr David Hoey, have successfully replicated the behaviour of a blood vessel and its guiding structure to regenerate damaged tissue.
20 Aug 2024
Health|Innovation|Research|Science
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ELPIS study brings hope to patients of rare genetic condition, CDD
Trinity College spin-out company (2019), Ulysses Neuroscience is bringing hope to patients of a rare genetic condition: CDKL5 deficiency disorder (CDD), through an award funded project, ELPIS,
30 Jul 2024
Health|Innovation|Research
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Electrical currents may make body’s cancer-killing cells even better killers
The scientists behind the discovery hope their promising findings may open the door to new combined therapies for people living with certain brain tumours, such as glioblastoma.
25 Jul 2024
Health|Research|Science
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Six ways to look after your brain health in your 20s and 30s
Corrina Grimes, Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) writes in The Conversation, on six of the most important lifestyle changes you can make while you’re young in order to look after your brain health.
24 Jul 2024
Health|Research
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Irish scientists pinpoint new drug target for RSV
The scientists have discovered how the dangerous Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) defuses our immune response and, in doing so, have pinpointed an exciting new target for drug developers.
18 Jul 2024
Health|Research|Science