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Sleepy Surgeons: The effect of sleep deprivation on surgical performance
Researchers say that the way we deliver emergency healthcare work alongside normal work in Ireland has to change. The study is published in the Journal of Surgical Research.
18 Aug 2021
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Plant diversity in grasslands: Multi-species swards outperform even in drought conditions
Averaged across the two years of the trial, mixtures with all six species - grasses, legumes and herbs - produced the highest yields, and yielded more than the best of the six monocultures.
17 Aug 2021
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New TILDA report reveals hopes and resilience of older adults through COVID
Research gives voice to those most affected by policy restrictions during the COVID pandemic and calls into question society's attitudes to ageing.
17 Aug 2021
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Trinity hosts first in-person graduation ceremonies since COVID-19 closure
Trinity is the first university in Ireland to proceed with an in-person graduation event. In keeping with COVID-19 protocols the events are held outdoors and attendance is limited to 200.
11 Aug 2021
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Cancer-killing cells are diverted into fat and away from tumours in obese cancer patients
Scientists have, however, discovered a key biological pathway that – when targeted with drugs – can reduce the extent to which the cancer-killing cells are erroneously diverted.
9 Aug 2021
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Trinity to welcome Royal Society Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellows
Two researchers – Dr Michael Gibbons and Dr Michelle Browne – will join Trinity after winning University Research Fellowships to pursue research addressing issues of sustainability.
5 Aug 2021
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Trinity launches new, flexible micro-credentials for future-fit, agile learning
Trinity’s first ever micro-credentials lead the way with cutting-edge content in the fields of leadership, sustainability, social impact and health.
4 Aug 2021
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Legal experts find significant lack of transparency around key COVID-19 decisions taken in Ireland
In the report (Public Health Law During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland), the experts address many different facets of life impacted by such decisions, including the impact on people living in prisons and direct provision centres, and on Ireland’s approach to counting deaths from COVID-19.
4 Aug 2021
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Researchers find inappropriate and unnecessary vitamin D testing in Dublin
Researchers found that one in four patients have their vitamin D frequently checked by their GP, and yet some remain deficient after several tests. Young adults and males were most likely to have low vitamin D but were retested the least.
4 Aug 2021
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The music of silence: imagining a song triggers similar brain activity to moments of mid-music silence
Researchers have discovered that our brains encode musical predictions even without music. These new insights into sensory prediction also have implications in clinical settings.
3 Aug 2021
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“That’s not another dogfish…” Researchers film large, prehistoric looking shark off Co. Clare coast
In what is a European first, a team of marine biologists from Trinity, Queen’s University Belfast and Fjordstrong have filmed a giant sixgill shark swimming in Irish coastal waters.
30 Jul 2021
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Three Ireland launches new STEM scholarship with Trinity to fund diversity and inclusion initiatives
The new partnership will fund the creation of 25 Three Ireland Scholarships for Women in STEM over five years and two Three Ireland Trinity Access Teacher Fellowships for three years.
30 Jul 2021
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Trinity begins work to add 1,600 student places to tackle society’s problems
Work will now begin on the Martin Naughton E3 Learning Foundry which will be built on the university’s existing historic campus. The 7,300m2 buildings will enable the university to teach in new ways which encourage teamwork, design, and project-based activities.
29 Jul 2021
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Trinity researchers and Inclusion Ireland bridge gap in playground communication
Researchers from the School of Psychology have collaborated with Inclusion Ireland to lead an innovative community initiative to assist children with communication difficulties to interact with their peers.
29 Jul 2021
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Explore the hidden SYSTEMS that surround us, at home with the Science Gallery
SYSTEMS the exhibition was scheduled to open in the summer of 2020 - but COVID-19 soon made those plans obsolete - so the Science Gallery have reimagined a way to explore and untangle the many complex systems around us, at home.
22 Jul 2021
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Geneticists pinpoint how a mutation causes devastating childhood cancer and successfully target tumour cells with tailored drug
This landmark work translates crucial new understanding of the genetics of diffuse midline glioma progression into a highly promising, targeted therapeutic approach, and offers significant hope of improved treatments in the future.
22 Jul 2021
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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance higher in low- and middle-income countries than richer countries
The study comes as vaccine hesitancy across the world is complicating policy decisions and endangering the progress made to date.
21 Jul 2021
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Rapidly diversifying birds in Southeast Asia – the Sulawesi babblers are teaching us fresh things about evolution
The work, led by zoologists from Trinity, makes new connections between animal behaviour, geology, and evolution – and underlines that species can diversify surprisingly quickly under certain conditions.
20 Jul 2021
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Researchers investigate the role of ketamine in the treatment of depression
Depression has been recognised by the World Health Organisation as the leading cause of disability globally. In Ireland, over 200,000 people experience a depressive episode each year.
15 Jul 2021
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Trinity names artists to create first sculptures of women for the Old Library
The sculptures will represent the scientist Rosalind Franklin, the folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder Augusta Gregory, the mathematician Ada Lovelace and the pioneering women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
14 Jul 2021
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The “Salt Sheep” of Chehrabad – ancient history brought to life by DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy
This remarkable specimen has revealed sheep husbandry practices of the ancient Near East and underlined how natural mummification can affect DNA degradation.
14 Jul 2021
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Spotlight on: Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne
In the first of a brand-new Spotlight On series which will highlight some of the great research underway at Trinity, we meet Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne, Assistant Professor in Conflict Resolution, and hear about his research into the Palestinian Bedouin communities who many believe are at risk of forced displacement around Jerusalem.
13 Jul 2021
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Scientists blueprint bacterial enzyme believed to play “stealthy” role in suppressing immune response
Blueprints such as these allow drug designers to uncover potential weaknesses in bacterial arsenals as they seek to develop new therapeutics that may help us win the war against antibiotic resistance.
12 Jul 2021
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Trinity Researchers Raise Grave Concerns for Palestinian Bedouins
"This research is so vital because without spotlighting the imminent forced displacement of the Bedouin, their very livelihoods will be further destroyed.”
8 Jul 2021
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Scientists home in on recipe for entirely renewable energy
The Trinity team behind the work has taken a major leap forward in searching for the “holy grail” of green catalysts that would allow us to produce clean energy from water. The work could one day make a huge contribution to reducing humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions.
7 Jul 2021
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Frailty identification can positively impact Ireland’s future health and social care policy
The new TILDA study contains pertinent information for healthcare providers and planners to help prepare and improve the future of overall care for Ireland’s growing ageing population, using targeted interventions.
6 Jul 2021
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A biodiversity action plan to maximise the benefits of wind farms
The Nature+Energy project will develop new ways of accounting for the value of nature on wind farms and establish a state-of-the-art environmental monitoring system across the country that will revolutionise how we measure and monitor biodiversity.
5 Jul 2021
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Why are some fish warm-blooded? Research points to a crucial speed advantage
Warm-blooded fish, like the white shark, swim faster than cold-blooded relatives. This ability does not, however, allow them to live in broader temperature ranges – so they are likely just as vulnerable to rising ocean temperatures
1 Jul 2021
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New approach to molecular drug design yields highly promising bladder cancer drug candidate
The exciting research involved a collaborative group of scientists from Trinity College Dublin, Charles University and Motol Hospital (Prague), Lund University, and startup company Hamlet Pharma.
28 Jun 2021
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Immunologists discover new trick used by MRSA superbug – may aid vaccine development
They found that the bacterium interferes with the host immune response by causing toxic effects on white blood cells, which prevents them from engaging in their infection-fighting jobs.
24 Jun 2021
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