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How high fructose diet increases chance of teenage anxiety disorders

11 June, 2025CIR

Anxiety-like behavior in adolescents caused by high fructose diets is likely due to its damaging…

Brain immune cells called microglia (green), with internalised/cleared dead cell neuron-derived material (red). There is reduced dead cell clearance with high fructose that is then rescued by removal of the fructose transporters.

IRR welcomes Mumbai youth leaders

09 June, 2025CIR CRH CRM

A group of Youth Leaders from the Mumbai-based education NGO The OSCAR Foundation visited IRR as…

The OSCAR Younf Leaders visit the Pandemic Science Hub

IRR celebrates its research, innovation and sustainability

09 June, 2025

The Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR) came together to hear about the great work of our…

IRR symposium delegates at The Nucleus venue

€13.6 million funding for early detection of Lynch syndrome cancers

28 May, 2025CRH

The PREDI-LYNCH project, co-led by IRR’s Dr Neil Ryan, has been awarded €13.6 million in funding.

Neil Ryan is standing in an office with a computer in the background. He is looking and pointing at an image in a textbook called "Modern Pathology". He is wearing a striped collared shirt and a blue sleevless jumper

Cell ‘drinking’ and enzyme activation shape immune cell fate

28 May, 2025CIR

New study shows that a specific growth factor causes early-stage immune cells (macrophage…

Macrophage precursor cells over time undergoing cell drinking, observable by the internalisation of pink fluid from outside the cell into small pink circular ‘bubbles’ and highlighted in the magnified image.

Fluorescent sensor that can track where and when a drug is released in cells

23 May, 2025CIR

Researchers at the University’s Institute for Regeneration and Repair have developed a sensor that…

Microscope image of cells (cyan colour) and fluorescent red and yellow dots signifying lysosomes and the drug

New urine test to identify kidney disease

22 May, 2025CIR

Work led by IRR researcher Dr David Baird has found that the protein clusterin found in urine,…

An image of two halves. On the left is a microscopy image of kidney tissue cells, marked with fluorescent colours; on the right, a headshot of David Baird

Winners of the Nigel and Val Shepherd Memorial Award

21 May, 2025CRH

Researchers Kathleen Duffin, Emma Kearney, and Emily Walshe have been awarded an early career…

Kathleen, Emma and Emily are smiling at the camera

IRR researchers take stage for Edinburgh’s ‘Pint of Science’

20 May, 2025CRH CRM

The Pint of Science festival featured IRR researchers sharing their research at two engaging events…

Rob Illingworth on a stage presenting to a large audience in a darkened room

Professor Dónal O’Carroll, IRR Group Leader, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

20 May, 2025CRM

He joins over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world in being elected to the Fellowship…

Professor Donal O'Carroll is smiling at the camera, wearing a red shirt in front of a stone wall