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Extra: What Is Childhood Dementia?
2026/2/03 | 11 mins.
Guest: Prof Matthew Campbell, Head of the Genetics Department and Chair of Neurovascular Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
Building a womb lining in the lab
2026/2/01 | 36 mins.
Guests:
Dr Susan Kelleher, School of Chemical Sciences at DCU
Dr Shane Bergin, physicist at University College Dublin
Dr Peter Rugg-Gunn, group leader at the Babraham Institute at the University of Cambridge
Extra: Turning muscle signals into speech
2026/1/27 | 14 mins.
Guest: Professor Luigi Occhipinti, Research Professor of Smart Electronics, Biosystems and AI, at Cambridge University
Why some wounds won’t heal
2026/1/25 | 31 mins.
Guests:
Professor Kimberly Kline, Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Medicine at The University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr Shelley Brady, DCU’s Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics

Dr John Regan, Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University
Extra: What if stopping Alzheimer’s means targeting one gene?
2026/1/20 | 13 mins.
Guest: Dr Dylan Williams, Principal Research Fellow in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology at UCL

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Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show.CONVERSATION THAT COUNTS | Ireland’s national independent talk station for news, sport, analysis and entertainmentListen to Newstalk at http://newstalk.com/listenlive | Download the GoLoud app now, the new home for Newstalk

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