An electrical approach to sensing cancer
Research Lives: Justina Ugwah, PhD candidate, Tyndall National Institute, UCC
Creative collaboration leads to material connections
RESEARCH LIVES: Dr Sinéad Griffin, staff scientist, Materials Science Division and Molecular Foundry, UC Berkeley
Smart learning from medical waste
Research Lives: Kieran Daly, co-founder and chief technology officer of HealthBeacon
Oireachtas surrogacy committee suspended after Senator accused of being ‘disrespectful’
Senator Sharon Keogan claims surrogacy is ‘harmful, exploitative and unethical’
Bringing the power of patients to research
Research Lives: Robert Joyce, embedded patient researcher, NUIG Department of Occupational Therapy
Signing the way for science in deaf education
Research Lives: Dr Elizabeth Mathews, assistant professor at DCU School of Inclusive and Special Education
Inflammatory bowel disease – the immune and gut bug connections
Research Lives: Prof Subrata Ghosh, deputy director of the APC Microbiome Ireland UCC
We need to join the dots on climate
Research Lives: Dr Clare Noone, senior postdoctoral researcher at ICARUS, Maynooth University
Meet the designer who solves problems in St James’s Hospital
Research Lives: Máire Kane is designer in residence at the hospital
The best way to deliver future RNA medicines? Bubble-wrapped
Prof Caitriona O’Driscoll, chair of pharmaceutics, UCC school of pharmacy
Digging into the thinking side of movement disorders
RESEARCH LIVES: Colm Peelo, PhD candidate at TCD and Beaumont Hospital
Student who worked on radiation project to represent Ireland at US science fair
Research Lives: Clare Reidy, SciFest STEM champion 2021 and sixth-year student at Our Lady’s Bower in Athlone
Understanding the science of stress and loneliness
Research lives: Dr Ann-Marie Creaven, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Limerick
‘The reward is seeing how important the process of blood donation is’
Research Lives: Dr Allison Waters, research and development lead facilitator at Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Mining into pretty useful mineral ores
Research Lives: Dr Aileen Doran, postdoctoral researcher, Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences
Wrap your mind around science books this Christmas
A good read: From the science of surfaces to the tropical Arctic and ... a lot more besides
Unravelling the molecular mysteries of leaky guts
Research Lives: Prof Declan McCole, professor of biomedical sciences at University of California, Riverside
Inspire, engage, explore: What’s happening for Science Week 2021
From farming and food talks to TV specials to online live events, the future is here again
Hamilton Lecture explores beauty of hyperbolic geometry
Formulas for twists and turns of shapes and surfaces intrigue Prof Caroline Series
Green leaves and tough grasses – how plants respond to climate change
Research Lives: Astrid Wingler, UCC professor of plant biology
Harnessing machine learning to help patients with ALS
Research Lives: Anna Markella Antoniadi, PhD candidate, FutureNeuro centre for chronic and rare neurological diseases
‘Effectively we have an indoor pandemic due to building failures’
Research Lives: Orla Hegarty, assistant professor at UCD school of architecture, planning and environmental policy
Banking on the future of oesophageal cancer research
Research Lives: Dr Marina Zaki, manager of Barrett’s Oesophagus BioBank at St James’s Hospital, Dublin
On keeping a close eye on sunspots
Research lives: Prof Peter Gallagher, head of astrophysics at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Comparing cancer clues in dogs and humans
Research Lives: Dr Stephanie Bollard, specialist registrar in plastic and reconstructive surgery
Recreating chemistry from the origin of life
Dr Seán Jordan, postdoctoral researcher at DCU Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics
Milking the science of dairying
Research Lives: Alan Kelly, UCC professor of food science and technology
Using platelets as little health sensors in our blood
Research Lives: Patricia Maguire, Professor of Biomedical Science at University College Dublin
The science behind vaccines and how long to wait before being immune
‘Your immune response takes about two to three weeks to produce the antibodies’
Linking local changes to global ecosystems
Research lives: Dr Elvira De Eyto, zoologist, Marine Institute’s Newport research facility
Diving into the secret lives of parasites
Research Lives: Dr Katie O’Dwyer, lecturer in aquatic ecology, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Engineering the right code for people and health
Research Lives: Ita Richardson, professor of software engineering at UL
Hacking the brain’s ‘software’ for better health and confidence
Research Lives: Prof Ian Robertson, co-director of the Global Brain Health Institute
‘Statistics brings together maths and storytelling’
Research Lives: Prof Claire Gormley, UCD school of mathematics and statistics
‘Is Muidne ESA’: An Irish launch mission for the European Space Agency
Do you know your satailít and your carr Mhars from your cóiméad or spásfort?
Measuring how plastic packaging disrupts our hormones
Research Lives: Lisa Connolly, professor in toxin food safety, Queen’s University Belfast
Could comedy offer a way to communicate science more effectively?
Conference to explore adapting science communication to new challenges
Clotting and Covid-19 – going beyond the lungs
Research Lives: Dr Roger Preston, senior lecturer in vascular biology at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Do you have 10 minutes to breathe for Covid-19 research?
Smartphones could monitor rate and quality of breath in people with Covid or recovering
‘When engineers design a product, we need to consider ways it could fail’
Research Lives: Bryan Naab, PhD student, I-Form centre for advanced manufacturing, UCD
‘I knew something was desperately wrong with me because I couldn’t open my eyes’
Dr Rosie Magan on how she is returning to work in science after a brain injury
Brown dwarf stars: What’s the weather like up there?
Research Lives: ‘This kind of astronomy is probably the ultimate in remote working’
Irish designer of Oxford vaccine: ‘I’ve never worked so hard in my life’
Tess Lambe estimates three billion doses of the Covid-19 jab will be available to distribute
Scientists must counter ‘fake stuff’ on Covid-19, says Luke O’Neill
Prominent immunologist ‘90% confident’ suitable vaccine will be found because of scale of research undertaken
Covid-19 and carbs: How coronavirus hides and attaches to cells
Dr Elisa Fadda, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Maynooth University
Science books to peruse this pandemic winter
Sonia Shah, Rita Colwell, Luke O’Neill and Fergus Shanahan inform and delight
Spit not yet polished for coronavirus testing
Saliva may prove useful for screening for Covid-19, but it has limitations
Digging into heritage for more resilient barley
Research Lives: Dr Sónia Negrão, assistant professor in plant sciences at UCD
A scaffold for healing
Research Lives: Prof Fergal O’Brien, RCSI professor of bioengineering and regenerative medicine
Autism and sleep disruption – a family affair
Research Lives: Dr Lorna Lopez, lecturer in the Department of Biology and Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research, Maynooth University
The intense marathon of making a vaccine against Covid-19
Research Lives: Dr Teresa (Tess) Lambe, associate professor and investigator at The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Getting to the heart of machine learning and complex humans
RESEARCH LIVES: Abeba Birhane, PhD student at UCD’s Complex Software Lab and Lero
Crystal clear water from the air
Research Lives: Prof Mike Zaworotko, Bernal chair of crystal engineering, University of Limerick
Stimulating long-term memory T cells to fight coronavirus
T-cells could potentially be used to achieve more sustained immunity against the disease
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