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New discovery has important implications for treating common eye disease

Scientists from Trinity have discovered that the molecule TLR2, which recognises chemical patterns associated with infection in the body, also seems to play an important role in the development of retinal degeneration.

20 Feb 2020

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Trinity Long Room Hub celebrates 10 years as flagship research institute

The Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute yesterday celebrated its 10th anniversary by highlighting the contribution of the Arts and Humanities to public debates in Ireland and internationally over the past ten years.

20 Feb 2020

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Scientists make fresh call for policy makers to protect pollinators

More than 20 pollinator experts from 18 different countries looked at a range of wildlife habitats on farmland and found that despite investing in Ecological Focus Areas are failing to provide all the resources insect pollinators require.

17 Feb 2020

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Genes from scratch – far more common and important than we thought

The majority of unique genes in the species the scientists looked at do not result from simple divergence from genes existing in others. This is surprising -- as is the discovery that genes evolving from scratch can have the potential to confer significant advantages to species adapting to their environments.

17 Feb 2020

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Trinity team to help image uncharted polar regions of the Sun

The Trinity team has played a pivotal role in developing the software that processes and analyses data from Solar Orbiter.

14 Feb 2020

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