Trinity College Dublin research has discovered that the body’s immune surveillance systems stutter and fail in the presence of excess fat, which reduces their ability to fight cancer and disease.
The Irish in American have a lot to be proud of not least people like Michael Mahoney of Boston Scientific one of the honorees of Irish America magazine’s 50 Healthcare and Life Sciences awards.
Bacteria within the gastrointestinal tract can influence gene regulators in areas of the brain involved in processing anxiety and fear-related behaviors.
Belfast-born astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 75, has donated the £2.3m ($3m) prize money she received after being awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
