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Long Covid study sheds light on link with period disruption

16 September, 2025CRH

Women with long Covid experience longer, heavier periods compared with those never infected with…

A selection of period pads, tampons and a purple moon cup on a yellow and blue background

IRR spinout Resolution Therapeutics doses first patient in clinical trial

03 September, 2025CIR CRM

Biopharmaceutical spinout Resolution Therapeutics has announced the first patient has been dosed…

on a teal background, a cartoon image of a man in a labcoat holding a clipboard is stood next to a large image of a liver

A promising new tool to detect biomarkers in blood

01 September, 2025CIR

Scientists from the IRR Chemistry Hub and the School of Chemistry at The University of Edinburgh…

Grey vesicle

Cause of cat coronavirus outbreak uncovered

29 August, 2025CIR

Researchers have uncovered the mystery behind the deadly cat coronavirus outbreak that swept…

A stray cat, lazing on the street in Ayia Napa, Cyprus

New IRR Professors announced

28 August, 2025

Three IRR Principal Investigators have been promoted to full professor along with twelve colleagues…

Professors Ahsan Akram, Christopher Lucas and Chelsea Morroni

Uncovering how a common childhood virus leaves long-lasting changes in the lungs

19 August, 2025CIR

A new study highlights a possible link between early-life viral infections and long-term…

Graphic of a baby with virus developing into an adult, coughing with asthma

New pipeline for testing and refining drugs for aggressive lung cancer

12 August, 2025CIR

IRR Group leader Dr Hansen and colleagues have developed a new testing pipeline that can compare…

Two fluorescent microscopy images of cancer cells with drug VT-107 (left) causing less YAP activity inside the cell nucleus (magenta), with minimal impact on cell shape (green), compared to dasatinib drug (right).

Advancing the monitoring of Crohn’s disease with PET-based imaging

24 July, 2025CIR

IRR researcher Dr Rahul Kalla and his team, in collaboration the Edinburgh Cardiovascular Imaging…

Headshot of Rahul Kalla

New jab protects babies from serious lung infection, study shows

21 July, 2025CIR

Vaccination of pregnant women has been linked to a drop in newborns being admitted to hospital with…

injection drawing from rsv vaccine

AI boosts eye disease prediction

15 July, 2025

A combination of routine eye scans and AI has created a powerful new way for measuring short-…

Retinal scan