Glucose - commonly referred to as a 'simple' sugar - may actually be crucial in the fight against cancer and inflammatory disease as scientists have just discovered a new role in which it stimulates cells that work on the ...
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Neuroscientists from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Rochester have identified a specific brain signal associated with the conversion of speech into understanding. The signal is present when the listener has ...
Feb 22, 2018
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There is evidence that some form of conscious experience is present by birth, and perhaps even in late pregnancy, an international team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and colleagues in Australia, Germany and the ...
Oct 12, 2023
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A comprehensive review into what we know about COVID-19 and the way it functions suggests the virus has a unique infectious profile, which explains why it can be so hard to treat and why some people experience so-called "long ...
May 7, 2021
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Scientists have uncovered the physiological mechanics underlying inflammation and obesity by tracking the actions of 'guardian immune cells' in response to changes in diet. They believe their work may herald a new era of ...
Mar 2, 2017
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Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that a part of the immune system called the inflammasome is involved in regulating the development of one of the most common forms of blindness, called Age-Related Macular ...
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A team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro has announced a major discovery with profound importance for our understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline seen in some patients with ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Scientists have just made a surprising discovery involving fat and special immune cells that live within it—it turns out that 'gd T cells' are the key cogs in the biological wheel that regulates our body heat and protects ...
Apr 24, 2018
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Researchers at Trinity are providing fresh insights into joint inflammation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The condition currently affects about 1 percent of the world's population and about 2,000 new cases are ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Scientists have discovered a new metabolic process in the body that can switch off inflammation. They have discovered that 'itaconate'—a molecule derived from glucose—acts as a powerful off-switch for macrophages, which ...
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