• Four UCC researchers receiving a combined €890,000 funding in the Marie Skłodowska -Curie Actions (MCSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship awards 2023.
• Dr Lorena Morales García to investigate the changes in brain development due to altered early life microbiota in newborns who have undergone a C-section birth.

• Drug commonly used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer sees tumour shrinkage in several other cancer types.
• Cancer treatment combination may have more uses than previously thought.

Lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the gut microbiome development of babies born during these periods according to new research from APC Microbiome Ireland (APC), a world leading SFI Research Centre, based in University College Cork, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Children’s Health Ireland.

• Review finds no increase in suicide rate during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• A range of factors during the pandemic served as protective effects to the risk of suicide.
• Study also highlights the need for high-quality and timely data on suicide deaths worldwide.

• Female led project brings together experts from APC Microbiome Ireland a world leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), The Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity College Dublin, University of Exeter and University of Bristol.

A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be, in part, a forgery following new examination of the remnants. The discovery has led the team led by Dr Valentina Rossi of University College Cork, Ireland (UCC) to urge caution in how the fossil is used in future research.

• The transformation brought by the rise in connected devices has significant environmental consequences, UCC and MTU conference hears.
• The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide is forecast to almost double to more than 29 billion IoT devices in 2030.
• Conference addresses issues in human-computer interaction with smart objects and materials.