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Rare 14-ft smalltooth sand tiger shark washes up on Wexford shore

A huge 14ft smalltooth sand tiger shark washed up at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, this weekend. Scientists believe it to be the first official record of the species being found in Ireland’s waters.

4 Apr 2023

Environment|Research|Science

Dr Susan Murphy wins highly prestigious ERC Starting Grant award

The funding of €1.5 million will help Trinity team transform the field of international development governance theory and practice.

21 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Research|Science

Indigenous Ashaninka DNA helps geneticists write new chapters of pre-colonial history in South America

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru.

16 Mar 2023

Research|Science

We used to think diamonds were everywhere. New research suggests they’ve always been rare

Emma Tomlinson, Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, co-authored this piece about what her collaborative research is teaching us about the formation of diamonds throughout time.

16 Mar 2023

Environment|Research|Science

Rock stars solve long-standing diamond conundrum

Three researchers from Queensland University of Technology and Trinity College Dublin have solved a long-held geological conundrum about how diamonds formed in the deep roots of the earth’s ancient continents.

16 Mar 2023

Research|Science

Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?

On Thursday 23rd March, Professor Mark Cunningham, Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy and the Head of the Discipline of Physiology at Trinity College Dublin, will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled “Hacking the brain’s accelerator: novel therapies for epilepsy?”. The lecture will take place in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at 6pm, and you can register for it here. The lecture is free and open to the public.

9 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Science

Fresh understanding of ageing in the brain offers hope for treating neurological diseases

Scientists from the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) have shed new light on ageing processes in the brain. By linking the increased presence of specialised immune cells to conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury for the first time, they have unearthed a possible new target for therapies aimed at treating age-related neurological diseases.

8 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Science

Trinity and Cambridge scientists unearth potential new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases

Scientists working in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity have made an important breakthrough in understanding what goes wrong in our bodies during the progression of inflammatory diseases and – in doing so – unearthed a potential new therapeutic target.

8 Mar 2023

Health|Research|Science

Minister Malcolm Noonan announces €1.5 million in funding to transform Trinity’s herbarium

The funding will enable Trinity to transform, digitise and safeguard its herbarium by providing physical infrastructure and enable the digitisation of 400,000 specimens, some of which are centuries old – making them easily accessible to the international research community as well as the public.

8 Mar 2023

Awards and Funding|Environment|Research|Science

Creativity and brain science collide at Creative Brain Week 2023

The exciting week-long event puts Ireland on the world stage, hosting global experts to discuss creativity's impact on our health and well-being through the themes of conflict, joy and imagination.

6 Mar 2023