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Professor Cliona O’Farrelly named 2022 AAAS Fellow
Cliona has been honoured for her outstanding achievements as a researcher in the field of comparative immunology.
31 Jan 2023
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Trinity researchers secure prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant awards
Drs Sarah Doyle and Marius de Leeuw have been successful in the latest round of results, which have been released today. They will explore how we can harness our immune system to fight blindness and seek models that could help us understand and explore uncharted sub-fields of physics.
31 Jan 2023
Awards and Funding|Research|Science
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Novel gene therapy shows promise for treating multiple eye diseases
The gene therapeutic approach, which shows promise for treating age related macular degeneration (AMD), may also be effective in treating other eye conditions such as glaucoma. It provided benefit in three additional models of mitochondrial dysfunction, including cells taken from patients living with an optic neuropathy.
30 Jan 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Size matters! Flock numbers and new faces are important in boosting flamingo populations
Flocking flamingos in groups of 50 or more and introducing new faces to a population may hold the keys to encouraging successful reproduction, according to a study published this month in Zoo Biology, which was led by Trinity zoologists.
26 Jan 2023
Environment|Research|Science
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Discovery offers significant hope for improved vaccines
Scientists have discovered there is a “Goldilocks” effect in identifying the size of a “vaccine adjuvant” that can trigger strong immune responses and, as an example, have shown that a safe, biodegradable adjuvant can boost the action of cancer-killing cells – if the particles are the correct size.
20 Jan 2023
Health|Research|Science
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Bees exposed to EU’s most common weedkiller via wildflower nectar
Bees may be at risk from exposure to glyphosate – an active ingredient in some of the EU’s most commonly used weedkillers – via contaminated wildflower nectar, according to new research from Trinity and DCU scientists.
17 Jan 2023
Environment|Research|Science|Sustainability
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Humans continue to evolve with the emergence of new genes
Modern humans evolutionarily split from our chimpanzee ancestors nearly 7 million years ago, yet we are continuing to evolve – with new analyses conducted by scientists from Trinity highlighting that two new human-specific “microgenes” have arisen from scratch.
20 Dec 2022
Research|Science
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Immune surprise: unexpected function for recently evolved alarm molecule in driving inflammation
Scientists from Trinity have made an important breakthrough in understanding how inflammation is regulated. They have just discovered that a key immune alarm protein previously believed to calm down the immune response actually does the opposite.
16 Dec 2022
Health|Research|Science
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Professor Luke O’Neill appointed to ERC Scientific Council
Composed of 22 distinguished researchers representing the European scientific community, the Council is the independent governing body of the European Research Council (ERC). Its main role is setting the ERC strategy and selecting the peer review evaluators.
8 Dec 2022
Research|Science
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Ancient amphibians had their bones cooked
Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery as to why ancient tetrapods – amphibian-like creatures that lived over 300 million years ago – preserved in one of Ireland’s most important fossil sites seemingly had their bones cooked after they died.
7 Dec 2022
Environment|Research|Science