What if someone gave you a magic pill – a pill that could allegedly improve your concentration, boost your alertness, bring all the disjointed pieces of your life back into bright focus and make you stop procrastinating? But there’s a …
Danielle Olavario is a former SciTech Editor of Trinity News. She is a Microbiology graduate.
Trinity scientists uncover mechanism behind “speed gene” in thoroughbred racehorses
The non-coding section was shown to be responsible for the skeletal muscle growth and race distance aptitude of horses
Trinity scientists in collaboration with UCD researchers have discovered the element of the “speed gene” which determines why certain racehorses are best suited to race over sprint distances and others over longer distances, in a paper recently published at scientific …
Professor Aoife McLysaght to lecture at this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
The prestigious lectures will be broadcasted on BBC Four between Christmas and New Year
Aoife McLysaght, Professor of Genetics at Trinity, will feature on this year’s Christmas Lectures, to be broadcasted on BBC Four between Christmas and New Year.
Today, the Royal Institution announced that Professor McLysaght will be joining Professor Alice Roberts, …
Trinity researchers uncover how cigarette smoking can lead to tuberculosis
Exhaustion in lung macrophages of smokers mean that they are not able to function properly and destroy pathogens
Trinity researchers have discovered how lung cell exhaustion, caused by cigarette smoking, can lead to tuberculosis (TB), and have published their findings in the American Journal of Respirator Cell and Molecular Biology.
The researchers compared the lung cells of smokers …
Trinity to host 24-hour hackathon to tackle climate change challenges
Dublin’s focus will be on its transition to smarter urban water management
A 24-hour hackathon will be hosted by Trinity today as Dublin participates in this year’s Climathon, a worldwide hackathon that brings students, entrepreneurs, technical experts, and app developers together to tackle climate challenges. 115 cities around the world will be …
Six startups kickstart Trinity’s first international accelerator programme
The programme represents one of the first forays into the global entrepreneurship ecosystem by Trinity
Tangent Pioneers, the first international accelerator programme, launches this week with six Trinity student and alumni-created startups. The participants include ethical fashion brand Nu, seaweed harvesting business SeaPunk, and a social enterprise that helps users donate to charities named Change …
The business of science
How profits, start-ups, and egos can shape science discoveries that reach the public
In April 2000, a scientific magazine, The Scientist, published the following statement: “It might not be a coincidence that an anagram of ‘genome’ is ‘ego men’.” This sentence was included in an article that discussed the joint statement of US …
