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Plastic manufacturing technologies jeopardise food safety and the environment

AMBER Centre researchers based in Trinity have discovered that the way many everyday plastics are manufactured builds unseen stress into the material—stress that later drives the release of tiny plastic particles into our food and the environment.

13 May 2025

Environment|Health|Research|Science|Sustainability

Fat-rich fluid fuels immune failure in ovarian cancer

New research led by Irish scientists has uncovered how lipid-rich fluid in the abdomen, known as ascites, plays a central role in weakening the body’s immune response in advanced ovarian cancer.

9 May 2025

Health|Research|Science

‘MAGIC-I’ hopes to optimise treatment of child and adolescent cancer

Prof. Owen Smith hopes MAGIC-I project will lead to every child and adolescent with cancer in Ireland receiving deep genome analysis to determine best way to manage their illness

5 May 2025

Health|Innovation|Research

BNT162b2 vaccine not only targets COVID-19 virus, but may also help reduce and control innate inflammation

New findings suggest the vaccine may reduce the production of pro-inflammatory mediators to bacterial, fungal or viral infections by reprogramming innate immune cells to regulate inflammation

28 Apr 2025

Health|Research|Science

Remembering the cold: scientists discover how memories control metabolism

New multidisciplinary research led by Prof. Tomás Ryan from Trinity shows that the brain forms memories of cold experiences and uses them to control our metabolism.

23 Apr 2025

Health|Research|Science

A day of curiosity and possibility: future doctors step into 'Mini Med Day'

The Trinity Access Programmes (TAP) Primary School Med Day is designed to spark curiosity and plant the seeds for future careers in medicine and healthcare.

16 Apr 2025

Community|Health|Science|Society

Trinity and St Patrick’s Mental Health Services to give occupational therapy training

The new partnership will provide occupational therapy students with clinical placements in mental healthcare settings.

15 Apr 2025

Health|Research|Students

School of Medicine honours its researchers

Six emerging bright stars in health and clinical research have been honoured in the latest round of the Trinity School of Medicine Research Awards 2025.

10 Apr 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Research

Two Trinity projects awarded over €5million in latest awards from Research Ireland

These awards will contribute to the advancement of high-quality and high-impact research activities at the faculties of STEM and Health Sciences.

28 Mar 2025

Awards and Funding|Health|Innovation|Research|Science

Oral contraceptives and smoking impact steroid hormone levels in healthy adults

Steroid hormone levels are also influenced by other lifestyle choices and factors such as biological sex and age, according to new research that has just been published in leading international journal Science Advances.

28 Mar 2025

Health|Research|Science