Research from RCSI will feature prominently in the television programme “10 Things to Know About…” which kicks off on RTE One at 8.30pm this evening. RCSI will feature in three of the six episodes in this; the second series of the show.

Tonight’s episode, titled 'Staying Young', will feature cutting-edge research on bone regeneration, conducted by Professor Fergal O’Brien and his team, including Dr Sara Barreto and Dr Arlyng Gonzalez at the College.

The programme is once again fronted by Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain, Kathriona Devereux and Jonathan McCrea, who will investigate some of the most exciting and ground-breaking science projects underway in Ireland. This time around each episode is themed on a certain scientific topic which gives ten key learnings to viewers on that research area. Tonight’s episode, will investigate some of the new ways in which Irish science is trying to help people stay young.

Presenter Jonathan McCrea comes to RCSI to meet Professor Fergal O’Brien and his Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) which is part of RCSI’s Department of Anatomy, who are conducting exciting new research that shows that what we can learn from children’s genes about their amazing capacity to create and repair bone could hold the key to a cure for Osteoporosis.