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Left-hooks, doorings, poor road surface conditions, LUAS tracks and kerbs often involved in Irish cycling collisions

New research into cycling road traffic collisions has identified a list of common collision scenarios for Ireland and underlined previously underappreciated issues on our roads.

1 Sep 2021

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Citizen engagement workshops invite public to explore artificial intelligence, our future and how we create it

Discuss AI is a multi-programme initiative run by the SFI ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology.

25 Aug 2021

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Understanding the variability in responses to COVID-19 illness in older adults

Researchers from the School of Medicine and Tallaght University Hospital are represented amongst an international consortium of leading clinical research institutes investigating the variability in older people's responses to COVID-19.

19 Aug 2021

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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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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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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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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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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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