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A broccoli juice a day keep the heart attack away
Alex Lloyd PhD Candidate, Dublin Institute of Technology
Did you know that roughly 17.5 million people worldwide die annually from Cardiovascular diseases (CVD)? According to the World Health Organisation in 2013, one third of global death was attributed to CVDs. In Ireland, it is estimated that 10,000 people die annually from these diseases. However, what if there was a cheap available food-based preparation that could decrease disease progressio
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18th Dec 2020
Barrett’s Oesophagus to Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma – Review
Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma is on the rise globally affecting more than 450,000 people worldwide (Pennathur, Gibson et al. 2013). Once diagnosed overall 5-year survival ranges from 15 % to 25 %, with the best outcomes being associated diagnosis in the early stages of cancer development (Pennathur, Gibson et al. 2013). Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma (OAC) arises from a pre malignant condition known as Barrett’s Oesophagus (BO). BO is associated with an increased risk of developing OAC compare
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18th Dec 2020
The Influence of dietary interventions upon platelet reactivity
Laura Menke PhD candidate, Queen Mary University of London
Inflammation vs. Resolution
Atherothrombosis is the leading cause of death worldwide and can be linked to the formation of blood clots in the vascular system. Depending on the location of clot formation, atherothrombosis can stimulate a variety of disease pathologies such as stroke, heart infarct and even leg ischemia, which makes research regarding prevention and treatment of thi
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18th Dec 2020
How the tumor microenvironment alters T-cell acute leukaemia
Alessandra Di Grande, PhD Student, RCSI - Antibody Genie Young Researcher Award 2018 (PhD category)
Leukaemia is a blood cancer arising from the malignant transformation of the white blood cells. The white blood cells fight infection from bacteria and viruses within the body. The incidence rate of leukaemia in Europe is 82,274 a year with a mortality rate of 5.1, leading to 53,773 deaths(1). Ireland has the second highest incidence rate, per p
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18th Dec 2020
Can infection cause chronic disease?
By Anusha Senevirante, Post-Doctoral researcher, Imperial College London
With non-communicable diseases (or NCDs, which include heart disease, diabetes, cancer) now responsible for the most deaths worldwide, large investments into research on these diseases are helping us understand their causes. Many of these diseases have something in common, they involve chronic inflammation. Cells normally triggered by the immune system to fight infection,
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18th Dec 2020