Note: This article was originally published on the RTE Website on Thursday Aug.30th 2018 as part of their “RTE Brainstorm series“ The major advances over the next century in the…
Read More Due to an absolute deficiency in insulin production resulting in elevated blood glucose levels – type 1 diabetes can lead to many life-threatening complications such as heart disease, eye…
Read MoreStarting out as a lecturer ages ago, I discovered on day one of my very first semester that my timetable had somehow double-booked me to supervise two completely different sets…
Read More“The eye is the jewel of our body” Henry David Thoreau Our eyes are the windows to the world. An incredibly sophisticated organ with a truly unique anatomy and physiology,…
Read MoreValència rests on the banks of the Turia river on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, and despite being classified as having a subtropical Mediterranean climate it definitely was…
Read MorePint of Science was started in 2012 by Dr. Michael Motskin and Dr. Praveen Paul. It grew out of a desire to communicate their research in neurological disorders to the…
Read MoreA discussion about the emotional struggles of pursuing research and ways of tackling them. A Ph.D. is a masterpiece, in the historical sense of the word – a piece of…
Read MoreContact Phone: +353-01-700-6234 Email: ali.coyle23@mail.dcu.ie School kids On March 21st, the NICB received some visitors that were a little younger than our usual demographic. Dr Finbarr O’ Sullivan…
Read More Mitochondria and the Energy Cycle of Life Panum Institute, University of Copenhagan The mitochondria, often referred to as the “the powerhouse of the cell”, are complex, double membraned organelles involved…
Read MoreThe second instalment of “BioPharma Ambition” was held in Dublin Castle 21st-22nd Feb 2018. Run by the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA), BioPharmaChem Ireland (IBEC) in association with the National…
Read MoreNote: This article was originally published on the RTE Website on Tuesday Jan. 23rd 2018 as part of their “RTE Brainstorm series“ Research is underway to create drugs which induce…
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, six members of our Mammalian Cell Engineering Group (CHO Group) attended the ESACT UK Meeting 2018 organized in Leeds by ESACT-UK. ESACT-UK is a society which promotes the communication of…
Read MoreThis post was written by three NICB cancer researchers: Neil Conlon, Alex Eustace & Denis Collins, with equal contributions from each Texas is known for big cars, big hats and…
Read MoreNote: This article was originally published on the RTE Website on Wednesday Nov. 22nd 2017 as part of their “RTE Brainstorm series“ Irish researchers are making valuable discoveries about ageing…
Read MoreNovember 16th 2017 is World Pancreatic Cancer Day . The aim of this day, which is spearheaded by a coalition of organisations worldwide, is to raise awareness of one of…
Read MoreThis blog is about my research as a Professor of Nanobioscience (SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY USA) and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the NICB, DCU (Sept.-Dec. 2017) and which is…
Read MoreCancer Week Ireland is the brain child of the Irish Cancer Society and Trinity College Dublin and aims to discuss improvements in cancer treatments, as well as tackling the physical…
Read MoreHow the NICB is working with industry partner Alltech to tackle sustainable food production The world population is projected to increase to 9.7bn by 2050, placing increasing demands on food…
Read MoreBRIDGING THE SCIENCE-TO-SOCIETY GAP FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS On March 16th 2017, the NICB hosted 49 high-school students and 4 teachers coming from the Lycée Jean Jaurès in Châtenay-Malabry, which is…
Read MoreA personal account of making the leap from research to starting a tech company…how I managed to commercialise my invention…and how the startup world looks through a scientist’s eyes This…
Read MoreRecently, we published an article in Metabolic Engineering that revealed widespread genetic heteroplasmy within the mitochondrial genome of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. That means that every copy of mitochondrial…
Read MoreRecently, we published an article in Metabolic Engineering that revealed widespread genetic heteroplasmy within the mitochondrial genome of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. That means that every copy of mitochondrial…
Read MoreIsolated from the ovary of a Chinese hamster in the 1950s, the Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell has become the bedrock of the biopharmaceutical industry. With a projected value of…
Read MoreBetween the 20th and the 22nd October, I had the opportunity to attend the 1st ESACT Frontiers Retreat 2016, taking place in Lyon. Citing words from the organizing committee, this…
Read MoreThe “CHO group” here in NICB is a sizable collection of young researchers, incorporating people with a wide variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. Collectively, we effort to tackle many…
Read MoreOn the 13-14th of September, the 2nd Annual Meeting for the eCHO Systems Innovative Training Network (ITN) took place in Vienna. The members of the consortium had the opportunity to…
Read MoreFrom explaining your research to your family, friends or even funding bodies, the ability to communicate your research to the general public is an extremely important skill for scientists. My…
Read MoreThe future of biopharmaceutical manufacturing platforms is to implement the use of small-scale disposable single-use (SU) plastic wave-reactor bags in parallel to the commonly used 10,000 L stainless steel bioreactors.…
Read MoreOriginally discovered by Emil Von Bering and Paul Erhlich, antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system that target a specific foreign object (antigen). They are called monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs)…
Read MoreThe DRIVE (Diabetes Reversing Implants with enhanced Viability and long-term Efficacy) consortium met recently in Venice Italy for its second general assembly to discuss progress, challenges and plans going forward…
Read MoreOn Tuesday morning 07.06.2016, Mr. William Power, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, conducted the very first cornea-limbal stem cell transplant in Ireland, at the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital, an event…
Read More‘Explain your research and its importance to a ‘lay audience’ (aka non-scientists) in a concise and dynamic way, in five minutes’. Sounds simple, right? ‘Telling it straight’, however, proved much…
Read MoreImproving cell-line productivity is one of the major goals for the CHO group at the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB), DCU. Under the supervision of Dr. Niall Barron (CHO Cell Engineering), Dr.…
Read MoreBy the end of the year, it is expected that the first cornea-limbal stem cell transplant in Ireland will have been performed. This is the result of collaboration between researchers,…
Read MoreThe innovative research undertaken by the pancreatic research group here in NICB, DCU was recently positively reviewed in a fantastic feature by a leading biomedical trade journal, “Academic Pharmacy Now”, focusing…
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