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Trinity joins Poetry Ireland to highlight the creativity of older people

The Global Brain Health Institute collaborates to host this nationwide call encouraging Ireland's older people to imagine, to create and to write.

19 Jan 2021

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New €7 million sustainable crop production project focuses on underutilised crops

The €7 million funding will be used to promote underutilised crops in Europe. The Trinity team will develop a toolkit to assess these production systems in terms of nutritional, environmental and ecological impact.

18 Jan 2021

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TILDA reveals vital evidence to inform HSE COVID vaccine roll-out

Researchers release key recommendations to boost uptake and efficacy of vaccine in older adults.

18 Jan 2021

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Discovery pinpoints new therapeutic target for atopic dermatitis

The new pathway that could be targeted with therapies offers a welcome new possibility for fighting AD. This is especially important in an era in which antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global threat.

11 Jan 2021

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Persistent ill-health post-COVID occurs irrespective of severity of initial infection

The research presents the first study globally to assess lung function and respiratory symptoms in patients across the full range of initial COVID-19 severity.

8 Jan 2021

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Professor Jonathan Coleman secures ERC proof of concept grant

The Print-SENSE project will examine the economic and technical feasibility of using nanomaterial-based inks for high-performance sensing applications, particularly within medical diagnostics.

7 Jan 2021

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The joyous birth of a baby and the hope for 2021

The word ‘midwife’ means ‘with woman’ and that is the midwife's key role in the birth of a new baby, both at Christmas time and throughout the year.

29 Dec 2020

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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Dr. Ciarán Kenny, Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies at Trinity explores what makes children’s singing voices sound so angelic.

27 Dec 2020

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It’s electrifying! This is how Earth could be entirely powered by sustainable energy

The fully renewable energy-powered future envisioned by the team would require a significant “electrification” of our energy.

26 Dec 2020

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How does Santa deliver billions of gifts in one night? Quantum physics of course…

According to Professor John Goold and Dr Mark Mitchison (of the TCD QuSys research group in Trinity), Santa is exploiting quantum mechanics to achieve the seemingly impossible.

23 Dec 2020

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