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Covid test a game-changer for Irish diagnostics group Hibergene is producing 6,000 test kits a week, and this could be ramped up to 45,000 about 7 hours ago Dominic Coyle Developing a test that can confirm in 30 minutes or less whether a patient has Covid-19 is a game-changer for Hibergene, a small Dublin diagnostics business. The company’s most...

HiberGene test for Covid-19 approved for market Julie Sinnamon A NEW test for Covid-19 developed by Irish genomics firm HiberGene Diagnostics has won European regulators' approval for potential sale worldwide. HiberGene said its as-yet- unnamed product had received the CE certification mark required to show it meets the production standards of t...

AbbVie closes acquisition of Irish-based Allergan Both pharma groups have large Irish operations Pharma group Allergan is best known for the production of Botox. Photograph: Bloomberg Pharma giant AbbVie has closed its $63 billion (€58 billion) acquisition of Botox-maker Allergan, having received the approval of the High Court and of all relevan...

Acorrd app helps treatment of Covid-19 patients Web-based tool aids closer monitoring and moved from idea to deployment in 10 days about 10 hours ago Kevin O'Sullivan Environment & Science Editor Prof Richard Costello at Beaumont Hospital: App was developed by respiratory consultants and medtech firm S3 Connected Health. Photograph: Tom Honan A ...

Blood clotting a significant cause of death in patients with COVID-19 IMAGE: PROFESSOR JAMES O'DONNELL, DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH CENTRE FOR VASCULAR BIOLOGY, RCSI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND CONSULTANT HAEMATOLOGIST IN THE NATIONAL COAGULATION CENTRE IN ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL,... view more CREDIT: MAXWELL PHOTOGRAPHY A study led by ...

Government announces 26 new COVID-19 research and innovation projects to complement existing third-level research activity Projects will address key areas such as frontline healthcare, diagnostics, infection control, contact tracing, mental health, potential treatments, and management of the mitigation measures related to social distancing and i...

Ireland ranked among best for Covid-19 innovative solutions More than 100 Enterprise Ireland client companies working on Covid-19 innovations about 17 hours ago Charlie Taylor Dublin comes in 13th place in a related city ranking, which is led by San Francisco. Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Email AppShare to LinkedI n The Republic has...

This is how COVID-19 spreads when we cough A coughing video created by University College Dublin professors has helped show the important of social distancing. The project uses schleiren imaging technology – which uses light to show the density of fluids - to illustrate how air moves around people when they cough or sneeze. Created by Professor ...

Seamus Mulligan leads $20m funding at medtech Avectas Drug delivery specialist aims to be key player as medicine turns to cell technology and personalised medicine to tackle cancers about 5 hours ago Dominic Coyle Avectas’s technology allows cells to be taken from people, often critically ill, and returned to them after they have been geneticall...