Dr Margaret Rae and colleagues on the Beaufort Marine Biodiscovery Project are looking to the sea in the hunt for clinically useful molecules. She tells Claire O'Connell about the hands-on chemistry of screening the marine for new and interesting chemistry.
17.May.2013 07:00
As part of his trade visit to Ireland this week, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited a digital health summit in Dublin yesterday to explore possible collaborations between digital health hubs in Dublin and Massachusetts.
16.May.2013 16:32
Astronaut Chris Hadfield says he feels like an “old man” and has been bumping into corners after being weightless for five months aboard the International Space Station. The Canadian gave his first news conference today after his return to Earth early Tuesday morning (Irish time).
16.May.2013 16:06
A Trinity College Dublin-based Lero team is to take part in a €2.5m European Commission-funded research programme to find out how the principles of ecology can be adopted to design more stable software systems.
15.May.2013 10:50
Teenagers’ moodiness and impulsive behaviours may be all in the head – literally. Researchers at Cambridge University have begun to study whether changes in the brain’s chemistry are associated with people behaving less impulsively as they grow older.
15.May.2013 10:19
Medical device firm Covidien is to fund non-profit Heartbeat Trust to support R&D into the use of mobile technology to allow remote monitoring of heart patients.
14.May.2013 13:32
Picture a scenario where, by collecting the right data and using today’s sophisticated analytics, our health system could predict when a patient with chronic conditions might get very ill and require hospitalisation, and intervene before that happens, thus saving the health system millions, and improving the outcomes for patients. A pipe dream? No, it is actually happening in the Basque country in Spain, where an e-health pilot is using today’s big-data technologies to do just that.
14.May.2013 11:59
A programme geared toward improving the skills of ‘out-of-field’ maths teachers at post-primary level is receiving up to €2m in funding from the Irish Government.
14.May.2013 10:41
Astronaut Chris Hadfield and two of his crew members, flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko, are back on terra firma today, after having returned safely to Earth early this morning after a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
14.May.2013 08:14
Not-for-profit tech industry group it@cork is hosting a technology summit in Cork this Wednesday to home in on future trends in areas such as cloud computing, robotics, big data and digital media.
13.May.2013 15:03
Researchers in the US have come up with a new semiconductor device that is capable of emitting two distinct colours and could potentially open up the possibility of using LEDs universally for cheap and efficient lighting.
13.May.2013 12:51
Getting therapeutics to their site of action in the body is a key step in successful treatment. Claire O’Connell talked to Prof Sally-Ann Cryan about her work to deliver the therapeutic goods.
10.May.2013 07:00
Ireland must secure an EU-wide deal for research funding for the European Union’s new programme for research and innovation Horizon 2020 before the end of its term as President of the Council of the EU. That’s according to Minister Sean Sherlock, TD, who was speaking at the opening of the Future Internet Assembly in Dublin yesterday.
09.May.2013 17:47
The impending arrival of filmmaker Avi Zev Weider’s triplets as a result of IVF inspired him to explore the nature of technology and what it means to be human in a new film, Welcome to the Machine.
09.May.2013 16:31
An annular solar eclipse will be taking place between 9-10 May when the moon will block part of the sun to create a ‘ring of fire’ sight. While the spectacle will only be viewable over parts of Australia and islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, people will be able to watch the eclipse live online.
09.May.2013 16:21
Last year, US aerospace company Terrafugia unveiled its street-legal flying car known as the Transition. That flying car won’t be available for at least another two years, but the company has now set its sights on pioneering a plug-in hybrid-electric flying car.
09.May.2013 11:23
