Samitha Somathilka joined TSSG in January 2020 as a PhD student funded by the VistaMilk SFI research centre. What did you do before joining…
Deirdre Mackey25th February 2021
How did you get to this point in your life? I am an Electronics and Communication Engineer and had a flexible curriculum in my…
Deirdre Mackey19th February 2021
Life-altering brain implant will sense and treat impending seizures A group of Waterford-based researchers are leading a ground-breaking new project that has been awarded…
Deirdre Mackey18th February 2021
Outline the paper Our world relies on communication. The capability to communicate and, more importantly, to be correctly understood, is an intrinsic need of…
Deirdre Mackey13th February 2021
Outline the paper In the natural world, or in other words, the animal world, there are dynamical systems which involve interactions between animals of…
Deirdre Mackey13th February 2021
The University Hospital Waterford 7th Annual Research Meeting was held virtually on the 29th of January of 2021 and showcased a wide variety of…
Deirdre Mackey11th February 2021
piSCES, one of TSSG's leading smart energy projects, is funded under the EU Interreg Ireland-Wales Programme 2014-2020. The team have developed a Smart Cluster Energy…
Deirdre Mackey8th February 2021
How did you get to this point in your life? I always had a clear answer to the question ‘What do you want to…
Deirdre Mackey5th February 2021
After what can only be described as the most unconventional year due to the Covid-19 pandemic which wreaked global havoc, the EU funded TransSec…
Deirdre Mackey30th January 2021
Outline the paper With the vast development in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, medical field advancements and IoT, more data has been available…
Deirdre Mackey7th January 2021
Mohit Taneja recently completed his PhD as a part of the Science Foundation Ireland funded CONNECT Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications; working at…
Deirdre Mackey7th January 2021
AgriDISCRETE is a two-year research project funded by the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine. It is exploring various aspects related to…
Deirdre Mackey7th January 2021
Samitha Somathilaka, a PhD student in TSSG and the VistaMilk SFI Centre, presented at the SFI Summit 2020. Abstract: Bacterial populations reside in the…
Deirdre Mackey8th December 2020
Daniel Martins, a postdoctoral researcher working with the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre at TSSG, presented at the SFI Summit 2020. Abstract: The fast and…
Deirdre Mackey8th December 2020
Companies and individuals who need to run simulations or test prototypes now have access to a state-of-the-art, €160,000 mixed reality testbed lab and research…
Deirdre Mackey8th December 2020
As the reach of Artificial Intelligence (AI) grows in transforming industries such as medicine, transport and defence, we find ourselves entrusting our health, safety…
Deirdre Mackey2nd December 2020
Pictured L-R: Dr. James O'Sullivan, TTO Manager in WIT, Ryan McCloskey, Experienced Research Developer in TSSG The innovative CoronaVRus project won the People’s Choice…
Deirdre Mackey27th November 2020
Virtual Reality (VR) is an interactive immersive software and hardware-based experience that allows users to enjoy a simulated three-dimensional world using a head mounted…
Deirdre Mackey25th November 2020
In Internet of Things (IoT) development, relying on the availability of field devices can pose different challenges, particularly in the smart energy space. These…
Deirdre Mackey6th November 2020
Dr. Hamdan Awan, postdoctoral research fellow in TSSG, has co-authored a paper outlining the significance of visual object tracking with many societal and industry…
Deirdre Mackey2nd November 2020
Award acknowledges WIT’s contribution to date as an institute of technology and is a vote of confidence in its ambitious plans for the future…
Deirdre Mackey30th October 2020
Geoflly Adonias has been a researcher in the area of Computational Neuroscience under TSSG's Brain Initiative and recently published a paper in Frontiers in…
Deirdre Mackey30th October 2020
Big Bertha at the Blackrock Castle Observatory Society, Economy and Environment (SEE) Space network bids to forge links with European Space Agency TWO world-renowned…
Deirdre Mackey30th October 2020
Smart garments and intelligent textiles are a result of an innovative convergence between fabrics and electronics. Merging these two creates a new level of…
Deirdre Mackey28th October 2020
SOGNO consortium visiting Kilkenny Castle, 2018 The distribution grid faces several growing challenges that will continue to adversely affect the stable and reliable supply…
Deirdre Mackey28th October 2020
Virtual Reality (VR) provides an virtual immersive environment detached from the real world around them. This allows objects in this environment to be simulated…
Deirdre Mackey20th October 2020
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) are finalists in two of the three categories at the annual Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards 2020. This…
Deirdre Mackey15th October 2020
Bruna Fonseca and Dr. Dixon Vimalajeewa, both from the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have been awarded…
Deirdre Mackey14th October 2020
eTextiles and Smart Materials Innovation Lab (eTex) People are in contact with textiles for up to 98 percent of their lives and such textiles…
Deirdre Mackey12th October 2020
The Irish led European Horizon 2020 project, DEMETER, has announced the launch of its first open funding calls, DEVELOP, with a total budget of…
Deirdre Mackey21st September 2020
Pictured: Dr. Alberto Huertas Celdran, Postdoctoral researcher in TSSG. How long have you been working in TSSG? I have worked in TSSG for…
Deirdre Mackey17th September 2020
Authors: Christine O’Meara (TSSG), Dave Hearne (TSSG) Ursula Kenny (TEAGASC) New IACS Vision In Action (NIVA) a H2020 funded project, aims to develop and…
Deirdre Mackey24th July 2020
In September 2016, as part of a consortium of partners from across Europe led by Ericsson, the TSSG attended the kick off meeting for…
Deirdre Mackey24th July 2020
World-leading SFI research centre expands to include WIT and TSSG researchers Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, has announced that it…
Deirdre Mackey16th July 2020
SmartAgriHubs is a €20 M EU project under the Horizon 2020 instrument, that brings together a consortium of over 164 partners in the European agri-food sector. The…
Deirdre Mackey15th July 2020
Saoirse Hartley, a fourth year Applied Health Care student in Waterford Institute of Technology, has been awarded a coveted summer student internship funded by…
Deirdre Mackey10th July 2020
The sensitivities around agricultural data sharing is the focus of new research being undertaken by smart-agri specialists at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) and…
Deirdre Mackey8th July 2020
Photo L-R: Kevin Doolin, Director of Innovation, TSSG and Dr. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Director of Research, TSSG. Photo Credit: Patrick Browne Recent EU…
Deirdre Mackey3rd July 2020
Researchers at TSSG combined their expertise in Cybersecurity and Molecular Communications to investigate a scenario where the behaviour of bacteria populations was maliciously affected…
Deirdre Mackey30th June 2020
TSSG had a big win in the Horizon 2020 call entitled FOOD 2030 - Empowering cities as agents of food system transformation (ID: CE-FNR-07-2020),…
Deirdre Mackey25th June 2020
Pictured: Jim Clarke and the other Webinar Panellists Due to his previous work in international collaboration with Brazil, TSSG group’s Jim Clarke was an invited…
Deirdre Mackey25th June 2020
There is no specific unit that is used in bars to sanitise the beer bottles before serving the beer to the customers. Health and…
Deirdre Mackey16th June 2020
COVID-19 has led to a global acceleration in the adoption of telecommunication and telepresence technologies. The ‘new normal’ which has been established in the…
Deirdre Mackey10th June 2020
An online conference ‘Fostering STI twinning activities between EU and Brazil’ took place on Friday 22nd May. The aim of this conference was…
Deirdre Mackey9th June 2020
Authors: Christine O’Meara (TSSG), Dave Hearne (TSSG) New IACS Vision In Action (NIVA) a H2020 funded project, aims to develop and implement technologies that…
Deirdre Mackey28th May 2020
Author: Dr Ruisong Han Across the world, health authorities, governments, companies, and academia are working together tightly and tirelessly to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Deirdre Mackey20th May 2020
Wearable electronic device to monitor social distancing. Researchers are working towards an inconspicuous wearable solution to track and assess the social distancing measures by…
Deirdre Mackey13th May 2020
Block-chain Safe-to-Work certification for people returning to work. While the current stay-at-home policy helps to suppress the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the impact…
Deirdre Mackey13th May 2020
Technology has played a critical role in the society of today as many people transition to remote working, remote schooling, remote shopping and remote…
Deirdre Mackey13th May 2020
Overall workflow of the Machine Learning (ML) system in CDaaS The global problem of antibiotic resistance is fast becoming one of the major scientific…
Deirdre Mackey13th May 2020
When the COVID-19 virus enters the respiratory system, it uses the Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2), found in the respiratory system, to bind and enter cells. Once COVID-19 has…
Deirdre Mackey13th May 2020
The COVID-19 virus knows no boundaries. Breathing difficulties and shortness of breath are a key indicator of the illness and fatality rates are high…
Deirdre Mackey13th May 2020
On the 28th of April, 2020, Jim Clarke from the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group at Waterford Institute of Technology participated as a panellist…
Deirdre Mackey5th May 2020
Read about the 4 different research projects aimed at supporting sustainable and competitive agricultural production practices and policies. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and…
Deirdre Mackey30th April 2020
The global pandemic (Covid-19 or SARS-COV-2) has so far killed thousands of people and continues to threaten many more in the very near future.…
Deirdre Mackey29th April 2020
Dr. Genaro Longoria successfully defended his PhD thesis at his Viva Voce on 6th April 2020, which took place remotly with Dr. Stepan Ivanov as…
Deirdre Mackey28th April 2020
Ursula Kenny (Teagasc), Christine O’Meara (TSSG), Dave Hearne (TSSG) This second blog post in our NIVA mini-series provides an overview of the first step…
Deirdre Mackey28th April 2020
Pictured: Dr. Donohoe, with his supervisors and PhD thesis Examiners after his successful Viva Voce on Monday the 20th of January 2020 at the TSSG Boardroom.…
Deirdre Mackey23rd April 2020
Pictured L-R: Kathryn Kiely, Dr. James O’Sullivan, Eimear Fitzpatrick, Dr. Mark White, Philomena Treacy, Susie Cullinane, Josephine Holohan, Celine Corcoran, Jonathan Brazil, Carol Kennedy,…
Deirdre Mackey22nd April 2020
Darren Leniston and David Ryan are part of the Team of Researchers and Engineers in TSSG working on the EdgeFLEX Project Building on work…
Deirdre Mackey20th April 2020
Authors, Christine O'Meara and Dave Hearne Welcome to our new mini blog series which outlines how Design Thinking and a Multi Actor Approach has…
Deirdre Mackey8th April 2020
We are delighted to announce that Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have joined FutureNeuro as an academic partner. FutureNeuro is the SFI Research Centre…
Deirdre Mackey1st April 2020
Pictured: Niall Grant a Software Developer in the area of Renewable Energy Research How long you’re working in TSSG? I’ve been working for…
Deirdre Mackey27th March 2020
Pictured is Ian Mills, TSSG; Frances Cleary, TSSG; Prof. John Nolan, NRCI; Emmanuel Ankamah, NRCI and Paul Hickey, TSSG EXPERTS in tech and nutrition…
Deirdre Mackey27th March 2020
TSSG global coordinator in €5 million FAITH project The FAITH team at TSSG in WIT. From left: Yahya Almardeny, Junior Software Systems & Machine…
Deirdre Mackey26th March 2020
This webinar is the first of a series to be organised around the NGIatlantic.eu Open Calls. It will introduce the NGIatlantic.eu project and opportunities…
Deirdre Mackey24th March 2020
Among the major elements of TransSec is the support for pan-European emergency call (eCall) standard. The European Commission eSafety initiative aims to enhance the…
Deirdre Mackey20th March 2020
Shagufta Henna, a Postdoctoral Researcher/Connect Research Fellow in the area of machine learning for future generation networks, recently had a paper titled "Distributed and…
Deirdre Mackey20th March 2020
Molecular communication is an emerging field which focuses on realising communication between nano-scale devices and especially the internet of bio-nano things. A key characteristic…
Deirdre Mackey19th March 2020
Lameness is a condition that affects the locomotion patterns of livestock. Timely lameness detection is one of the major and costliest health problems in…
Deirdre Mackey16th March 2020
agROBOfood is offering 2.65 M€ to SMEs through its’ 1st Open Call for Innovation Experiments. agROBOfood is a Horizon 2020 project aiming to build a…
Deirdre Mackey9th March 2020
Epilepsy is a neurodegenerative disease identified by its characteristic synchronized high-frequency neuronal activity, also known as seizures, in specific parts of the brain and,…
Deirdre Mackey9th March 2020
Mr. James Clarke, a researcher in the Telecommunications Systems Software Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has been awarded funding of €3.5…
Deirdre Mackey3rd March 2020
TSSG H2020 project TO-EURO-5G finishes with top marks The H2020 5G PPP’s TO-EURO-5G project ran for the period June, 2017 until August, 2019, with…
Deirdre Mackey28th February 2020
From the 9th to the 11th of March in Bucharest, Romania, the SmartAgriHubs Stakeholder Conference will celebrate the achievement of one of the largest…
Deirdre Mackey24th February 2020
Dr Daniel Martins successfully defended his PhD thesis at his Viva Voce on 25th November 2019, with Dr Chun Tung Chou (University of New…
Deirdre Mackey31st January 2020
About 200 hundred kilometres north of Sydney, we find Newcastle, the largest coal exporting harbour in the world and a quiet city of the…
Deirdre Mackey27th January 2020
The following presentation describes the potential use of the vagus nerve to transmit modulated data pulses to an embedded drug-delivery system in the brain. Energy harvesting is used…
Deirdre Mackey16th January 2020
Below is a presentation given by Dr. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Director of Research at TSSG, in which he presented his current research in developing miniature…
Deirdre Mackey16th January 2020
Nikita Jalodia, a PhD Researcher with the Emerging Networks Lab research unit in TSSG at Waterford Institute of Technology, recently had her work published…
Deirdre Mackey22nd November 2019
Distributed energy resources (DER) are becoming ubiquitous in deregulated electricity markets. Renewables sources take a significant share of the total DER installed capacity. The…
Deirdre Mackey31st October 2019
Pictured at the launch from left are: Dr Mary Reidy (WIT); Dr Carme Rosell Moreno and Dr Ester Mateo Aguilar (Tecnocampus University, Barcelona); Prof…
Deirdre Mackey23rd October 2019
Biological systems that are able to detect cancer cells and treat systemic diseases, e.g. Inflammatory Bowel Disease, have recently been synthetically designed using principles…
Deirdre Mackey18th October 2019
Mohit Taneja, an Experienced Software Research Engineer and Ph.D. Researcher at the Emerging Networks Lab at TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, has had a…
Deirdre Mackey17th October 2019
E-learning is a general term traditionally related to learning processes in which electronic communication technologies are used, specifically the Internet and its services, such…
Deirdre Mackey16th October 2019
In the second of the series, Jerry Horgan, TSSG Infrastructure Manager, WIT, discusses the case for national research data centres. Most HEIs have been…
Deirdre Mackey11th October 2019
Pictured is TSSG staff at ACM NanoCom in the Science Gallery with Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz. The TSSG recently co-organized the 6th Association for…
Deirdre Mackey9th October 2019
Figure 1: TransSec Vehicle to pedestrian (V2P) Mobile Application TSSG is developing a mobile application to keep the pedestrians safe during intentional truck attacks. In…
Deirdre Mackey27th September 2019
AGRICULTURAL technology experts from across the globe will be in Waterford and the south east for three days from September 10 for the launch…
Deirdre Mackey5th September 2019
Researchers at the TSSG of Waterford Institute of Technology have received $50,000 funding from CISCO Research Centre to investigate how the internet connected devices…
Deirdre Mackey6th July 2019
Photo left to right Niall Grant, TSSG, Sean McGuinness, EPRI, Fiona Williams, Ericsson and RE-SERVE Project Manager, Ronan Murphy, ESBN, Brian Carroll, ESB eCars,…
Deirdre Mackey13th June 2019
With the exponential growth rate of technology, the future of all activities involves an omnipresence of widely connected devices, or as we better know…
Deirdre Mackey13th June 2019
On 28th May, 2019, the TSSG led SpeakNGI.eu project held their final review in Brussels. SpeakNGI.eu, which ran from 1 October, 2017 until 31…
Deirdre Mackey13th June 2019
Light carries spin angular momentum (SAM) in its left- or right-handed circular polarization, and orbital angular momentum (OAM) in spiralling wavefronts that form a…
Deirdre Mackey3rd June 2019
AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) are still emerging technologies as we move into a new age of computing. As TSSG have been…
Deirdre Mackey23rd May 2019
Software Research Engineer, Ehsan Elahi, recently won €75,000 funding in the 5GINFIRE Open Call for Experiments. The project is to experiment a graph neural…
Deirdre Mackey23rd May 2019
TECHNOLOGY experts in Waterford are bidding to tackle one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer using miniature, implantable devices. TSSG is Ireland’s…
Deirdre Mackey8th May 2019
Ryan McCloskey is a Junior Software Developer working in the AR/VR thematic area within the MEPS group at TSSG. Ryan is currently working in…
Deirdre Mackey1st May 2019
The Smart Energy team are working with industrial users with large 24/7 loads who have a degree of flexibility in the timing of that…
Deirdre Mackey1st May 2019
To-Euro-5G (Supporting the European 5G PPP) has a prime objective to support the activities of the European 5G Initiative during the second phase of…
Deirdre Mackey1st May 2019
Social Network Analysis Based Metric for Characterizing Behavioral Dynamics of Human-Managed Animals
The generation of vast quantities of data from sensor technologies necessitates the investigation of novel strategies to transform such data into useful metrics, which…
Deirdre Mackey1st May 2019
Irish tech experts are helping to harness the power of super powered computers to help vineyards across the globe improve grape quality and yields…
Deirdre Mackey25th March 2019
Dr. Alan Davy of the Telecommunication Software & Systems Group, WIT has just returned from a very successful second Towards TeraHertz Communications Workshop hosted…
Deirdre Mackey11th March 2019
Dr. Zeta Dooly successfully defended her thesis at her VIVA on 11th Oct 2018 with external examiners Dr. Ann Torres (NUIG) and Prof. Philip…
Deirdre Mackey5th March 2019
L-R: James Clarke, Maria Palombini, Felix Barrio, Claudio Caimi On 5th December, 2018, Mr. James Clarke of the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group of…
Deirdre Mackey5th March 2019
Within the TransSec project the experience of the consortium for the first year consisted of what can be considered normal in all projects of…
Deirdre Mackey21st February 2019
TransSec is an intelligent road transport security system project, funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme. TransSec is a consortium of researchers, innovators and businesses from…
Deirdre Mackey21st February 2019
TSSG recently completed AMEND, an industry-targeted research project with Intel Research Lab, Leixlip under the auspices of the CONNECT Research Centre for Future Networks…
Deirdre Mackey19th February 2019
We previously introduced you to the MEPS (Mobile Ecosystem and Pervasive Sensing) research team, now we delve deeper into the thematic areas the team…
Deirdre Mackey12th February 2019
The Mobile Ecosystem and Pervasive Sensing Research Group (MEPS) in TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, led by Research Unit Manager Frances Cleary, is a…
Deirdre Mackey28th January 2019
A nerve can be visualised as a communications path transporting information via neurons from the body to the brain and vice versa. Individual neurons…
Deirdre Mackey22nd January 2019
Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death for all ages and the fifth leading cause of death for those 65 years of age…
Deirdre Mackey18th January 2019
Thank God! Those were the first two words that came to mind when somebody asked me how I felt after Kriti’s Viva. Everybody in…
Deirdre Mackey17th January 2019
Dr. Alan Davy has been listed in Silicon Republic's top 22 'high flying scientists' who are 'making the world a better place' in 2019…
Deirdre Mackey14th December 2018
Pictured are Dr. Eyal Misha, John Byabazaire and Mohit Taneja. Picture: Patrick Browne IEEE ComSoc Student competition is an annual competition organized by IEEE…
Deirdre Mackey10th December 2018
TSSG is a partner in the Horizon 2020 AEGIS project, which stands for Accelerating EU – US Dialogue for Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity…
Deirdre Mackey3rd December 2018
TIDA, from Science Foundation Ireland, supports researchers in Ireland to ensure Ireland maintains its position as a leader in cutting-edge research A research project…
Hazel Williams19th November 2018
The TransSec team at TSSG is comprised of four members within the Mobile Ecosystem and Pervasive Sensing (MEPS) Research Unit, starting with Technical Lead,…
Deirdre Mackey24th October 2018
Mobile Ecosystem and Pervasive Sensing (MEPS) Unit provides expertise and knowledge across three main thematic areas focusing on Bio-Nano Telecommunications, Pervasive Sensing and Embedded…
Deirdre Mackey22nd October 2018
There is a growing worldwide concern over health issues presented by poor air quality, with the World Health Organisation stating that there are 4.2…
Deirdre Mackey22nd October 2018
Dr. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Director of Research at TSSG, joins a consortium of MNC’s, SME’s and Research Organisations as Principal Investigator in the new multi-million-euro…
Deirdre Mackey22nd October 2018
The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) of Waterford Institute of Technology, as part of their role in the SpeakNGI.eu project, was involved in…
Deirdre Mackey17th October 2018
Antimicrobial resistance has become a global concern in recent years, and new techniques are continually being sought to treat bacterial infections without enhancing its…
admin26th September 2018
Telecommunications, Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) secure major role in €3 million secure truck navigation project - TransSec…
admin28th August 2018
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is to play a central role in the digital transformation of the agri-food sector in Europe. EU Commissioner for…
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TSSG's researcher Dr. Mubashir Husain Rehmani has been awarded the award of Outstanding Associate Editor of IEEE Access for the year 2017. IEEE Access…
admin25th June 2018
A FORMER carpenter, who 10 years ago, didn’t even know how to insert a USB stick into a computer, is now playing a lead…
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TECH experts at a top Irish research and innovation hub have teamed up with industry and carefully-selected global partners to catapult the age-old electricity…
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Currently, Ebola virus outbreak is affecting the Republic Democratic of Congo. While the vaccines developed during the last outbreak in 2014 are still being…
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Wireless radio spectrum is a scarce resource and a few chunks of the bandwidth of these licensed frequency bands sells at auctions for multi-billion…
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The current electricity grid is transforming into a smarter grid a.k.a, Smart Grid (SG). One of the major goals of the SG is to move…
admin25th May 2018
The Irish Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) Research Showcase took place in Killarney on the 2nd May 2018. The CAV seminar included speakers from…
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Waterford Institute of Technology’s Telecommunication Software and Systems Group (TSSG) was awarded SFI funding in conjunction with Teagasc for a project titled “Using precision…
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Post doc Researcher, Michael Taynnan Barros and Director of Research, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, both of TSSG, are working on an ICT-based approach to Brain Communication,…
admin17th April 2018
The TERAPOD team have launched a new video giving an overview on the project and the implications this research will have on future networks.…
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On 8th February, 2018, James Clarke of the TSSG at Waterford Institute of Technology attended the final review of the Horizon 2020 project DISCOVERY,…
admin14th February 2018
Storing data in DNA is a lot easier than getting it back out. But a method bacteria use to swap genetic information could offer…
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Gary McManus, Project Lead on Carelink at TSSG €2.5 million Carelink project to reduce stress for caregivers and dramatically increase the survival rates of…
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