Ten weeks, fourteen startups, thirty-six students, over twenty-five events, and countless cups of coffee... Come along to the GMB for the final Launchbox company pitches - hear how the teams got on during the programme and celebrate their achievements with us!
12 Aug 2016
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Scientists have discovered macabre fossil evidence suggesting that 300 million-year-old sharks ate their own young, as fossil poop of adult Orthacanthus sharks contained the tiny teeth of juveniles.
11 Aug 2016
Scientists have used fossil evidence to determine that a 300-million-year-old shark species cannibalised its own young.
The All-Ireland Pollinator Plan is now releasing guidelines to enable public and private bodies to help conserve pollinators across the island of Ireland.
9 Aug 2016
A new study by academics in Trinity College Dublin has found that there is a strong positive relationship between planned birth at home and breast feeding: breastfeeding was twice as likely after planned home births compared to hospital births. The research involved the largest population cohorts comprehensively examined to date for an association between breast feeding outcomes and place of birth in low risk pregnancies.
Exciting public programme aimed at those with casual interest in Beckett
8 Aug 2016
Researchers in Trinity College Dublin have published the first study to report national incidence rates of a rare kidney disease, anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease. Their study, published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, also showed clustering of cases in time and space, which suggests that there may be an unidentified environmental trigger for the onset of the disease. Professor and Consultant of Nephrology at Trinity’s School of Medicine, Mark Little.
The €28 million project will bring together scientists from 22 countries, with the pre-clinical work led by those from Trinity.
Scientists have shed new light on Ascaris infection, which affects 1 billion people worldwide. Targeting specific liver proteins may offer new preventative options.
5 Aug 2016
