Trinity College Dublin

In a time of heightened global crisis, the systems that shape our world are becoming increasingly fragile. While ecosystems are being destroyed, political processes are being manipulated, economic structures exploited and personal…

Trinity College researchers have joined colleagues from institutions across the globe to examine vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in 10 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, and South America.Their research published in Nature…

Researchers from Trinity have discovered how a specific genetic mutation (H3K27M) causes a devastating, incurable childhood cancer, known as diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and – in lab studies working with model cell types – successfully…

New findings from zoologists working with birds in Southeast Asia are shining fresh light on the connections between animal behaviour, geology, and evolution – underlining that species can diversify surprisingly quickly under certain…

Marine biologists from Trinity are among those supporting the Save Our Shark campaign, which has inspired over 9,000 people to petition Government to afford legal protection to basking sharks in Irish waters.In May, Social Democrat TD and…

A team of geneticists and archaeologists from Ireland, France, Iran, Germany, and Austria has sequenced the DNA from a 1,600-year-old sheep mummy from an ancient Iranian salt mine, Chehrabad.This remarkable specimen has revealed sheep…

Researchers from Trinity and St Patrick’s Mental Health Services are trialing a new treatment option (ketamine) for people who are experiencing severe depression.Led by Declan McLoughlin, Research Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity, and…

Trinity College Dublin has awarded commissions to four artists to create four new sculpture bust portraits representing women scholars for display in the Long Room of the Old Library. The sculptures will represent the scientist Rosalind…

With British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s successful flight to the edge of space, he and his company Virgin Galactic have firmly established themselves in the history books as space tourism pioneers.While not the first tourist to…

Scientists have produced the first fine-detail molecular blueprints of a bacterial enzyme known as Lit, which is suspected to play a “stealthy” role in the progression of infection by reducing the immune response.Blueprints such as these…