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On the shore between industry and academia
Eithne Browne, Research Masters student at NUI Galway, explains how she started her research with industry as part of her research degree in at NUI Galway.
Seaweeds for a “broken heart”
Seaweed protein in your food could help you to reduce your blood pressure and the risk to suffer heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases.
Cell cycle arrest in plants
In the cell cycle, the G1 phase can be like a prison, where plant cells are arrested, unable to divide. These cells have been arrested for different reasons, serving sentences of different lengths. So how and why did they get there?
What is it that gives mānuka floral nectar its unique composition?
The secret of mānuka honey, is mānuka nectar, but what is the secret of mānuka nectar?
A rare orchid makes a return to its home range
The plant that was almost loved to death returns to its former partner.
The orchid that’s running out of time
Ophrys sphegodes, the early spider-orchid, is a plant with a very short pollination window. The changing climate is closing that window more and more often as the planet warms.
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