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 …
Delving into life and science at Schrödinger at 75
What did students, postgrads, and visitors make of the conference on “The Future of Biology”?
The meeting of international experts and keen listeners at the Schrödinger at 75 conference concerned the future of biology and was an opportunity to hear different scientific perspectives, but not only those of the speakers. Filling the auditorium of the …
Trinity study finds basking sharks can jump out of water faster and higher than previously thought
Trinity zoologists made the discover using video analysis and data recording devices
Trinity marine biologists, in collaboration with marine biologists from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), have discovered that basking sharks can jump as fast and as high out of water as great white sharks. Basking sharks, commonly found in the waters around …
Trinity wins award at the annual DatSci awards
The winning project is machine-learning based and revolves around keeping track on the changes of the data-technology landscape in order to keep up with novel technologies.
Trinity’s Global Centre of Excellence for Digital Content and Media Innovation (ADAPT) were among the ten award winners at the third annual Data Science (DatSci) Awards, held last Friday at Croke park. ADAPT won the award for Best Contribution to …